Job Description

Job Description

Align yourself with an organization with a reputation for excellence! Cedars-Sinai was awarded the National Research Corporation???s Consumer Choice Award 19 times for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We were also awarded the Advisory Board Company???s Workplace of the Year. Cedars-Sinai offers an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off, healthcare and a 403(b). Discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America???s Best Hospitals!

What You be doing in this Role:

The Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, is a member of a transdisciplinary inpatient palliative care consultation team caring for hospitalized adults with serious, life-limiting illness. Participates in daily interdisciplinary rounds to triage & discuss complex cases. Uses clinical judgment and discretion in determining which patients are in need of specialized palliative care social work support, and the frequency and duration of visits. Conducts trauma-informed psychosocial-spiritual assessments with hospitalized patients and their supports. Implements therapeutic interventions to aid in symptom alleviation and enhance coping. Attends to existential distress and anticipatory grief that may accompany advanced illness and/or the dying process. Engages patients & visitors in advance care planning. Participates as teaching faculty in the Palliative Medicine fellowship.

• Evaluates and implements social service programs for patients with psycho/social issues focusing on seniors, catastrophic and chronically ill patients
• Develops social service documentation tool/templates in EMR for Social Work consults, family counseling and group sessions and IS reports for outcome measurements
• Performs triage for patients within corresponding team(s) and assists in coordinating patient care delivery, including DPA/POSLT and documents pertinent information in the case management system
• Implements transitions of care between inpatient and continued outpatient follow up and vice versa
• Initiates team care conference to include patient, family and care providers
• Evaluates daily caseload and assess achievement of long and short term goals; Modifies goals with providers and care team based upon patient outcomes
• Compiles and presents statistics and reports relating to patient outcomes and document findings in the patients EMR
• Follows up on communication to the referral source, IE, PCP, family member, case manager, home health personnel, community social worker, Health Plan, etc.
• Acts as the social services liaison for the department, particularly in the areas of: Advance Care Planning discussions, complex discharge planning, Biopsychosocial assessments
• Refers patients to agencies that provides supportive services optimizing patients health plan benefit
• Assists in arranging community resources and in the long term planning for patients transitioning to institutional setting.
• Provides alternatives for patients requiring specific services
• Assists in the development and implementation of new policies and procedures for the department
• Participates in advance care planning initiatives
• Provide education about palliative care and hospice to patients, caregivers, and staff members??
• Conducts palliative care-specific psychosocial assessment and administers therapeutic interventions to aid in symptom-alleviation and enhance coping for hospitalized adult patients with serious, life-limiting illness, and their support systems. Participates as teaching faculty in the Palliative Medicine Fellowship. ??

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Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Social Work with a Master???s degree
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License/Certification:

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) required.
• NASW???s ACHP-SW certification and/or SWHPN???s APSHW-C certification preferred

Experience:

• At least 2 years Clinical social work experience including inpatient palliative Care, outpatient palliative Care, or hospice care

Req ID : 5244

Working Title : Clinical Social Worker, LCSW ??? Supportive Care Medicine/Palliative Care - Outpatient position

Department : MNS ISP

Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Job Category : Patient Services

Job Specialty : Social Work

Overtime Status : EXEMPT

Primary Shift : Day

Shift Duration : 8 hour

Base Pay : $42.11 - $67.38

About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi ... tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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