Medical Social Worker

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• Employee demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his/her unit:Infant (Birth to 12 months), Child (13 months to 12 years), Adolescent (13 years to 17 years), Adult (18 years to 69 years) or Geriatric (70 years and older).
• Maintains an active presence on all units.
• Assesses new referrals in a timely fashion per department guidelines.
• Has a special focus on re-admissions, advanced age, living alone, uninsured, homeless, terminal illness, psychiatric illness, suicidality, suspected abuse/neglect, those expected not to be able to return to their previous living situation, high risk pregnancies, adoption, foster care, guardianship issues, drug/alcohol addiction.
• Promotes communication and collaboration among health care team members.
• Coordinates continuity of care planning through family meetings.
• Identifies and facilitates community resources.
• Advocates for the patient and family needs in different settings: inpatient, outpatient, home and in the community.
• Educates/navigates patients as needed on the levels of health care/healthcare team members.
• Ensures communication and understanding about post-hospital care among patient, family and health care team members.
• Facilitates APS/CPS/Guardianship/Advance Directives.
• Facilitates decision making on behalf of patients and families.
• Employs crisis intervention.
• Educates hospital staff on patient psychosocial issues.
• Identifies ethical issues.
• Obtains authorization and placement for psychiatric patients residing outside of 2W Psych.
• Conducts all steps in referral, placement and paperwork to Hospice (home and inpatient).
• Attends Long Stay, Multi-D rounds as appropriate.
• Participates in departmental meetings and serves on community/hospital workgroups as appropriate.
• Performs approved liaison, teaching, and outreach activities, and committee assignments which underscore professional practice and enhance the goals/objectives of the Hospital and department.

MS Social Work from an accredited school of social work.

Must be licensed by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners at the LCSW-C level.

2 years or more of licensed clinical social work experienced in Hospital Health care setting.

Johns HopkinsHealth Systemand its affiliatesare an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.