Job Summary: The Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Palliative Care is responsible for providing psychosocial assessments, and addressing psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual needs for assigned adult/geriatric patients and families facing irreversible serious illness. Provides crisis intervention, emotional support, counseling, education, and advocates for patients/families. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the treatment plan.
Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:
- Conducts psychosocial assessments for patients and families to identify opportunities for intervention.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates patient treatment and care plans.
- Collaborates with patients, families, clinical staff, and the palliative care team to identify short and long-term goals of care.
- Participates in Interdisciplinary Team huddles and collaborates with other departments.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of various counseling modalities and how to work with the adult population.
- Provides counseling for grief/loss and identifies families at risk for complicated grief.
- Provides community resources and support relevant to the patient's serious illness based on need.
- Provides education to patients and families regarding palliative care, advance care planning, and other needed services.
- Navigates challenging conversations about end-of-life decision-making while maintaining an inclusive framework that respects and identifies multicultural concerns, ethical issues, potential conflicts of interest, and spiritual or religious concerns.
- Collaborates with the clinical staff and the patient/family and provides interventions designed to minimize stress to expedite recovery.
- Maintains clinical competence for adult, geriatric, and palliative Social Work services and exhibits professional growth and development.
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
- Maintains electronic medical records with accuracy and in compliance with JPS standards.
- Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.
- Must be able to complete all job duties and functions of the role with or without assistive/adaptive devices, and/or reasonable accommodations.
- Work environments may differ based on job functions and location. Work is subject to schedule changes and/or variable work hours.