Kaiser
Kaneohe, HI, USA
Job Summary:
Serves as an integral member of a multidisciplinary inpatient care team. Provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments, coordination, and implementation of age appropriate social medicine services to meet the needs of patients/families/significant others in the hospital setting. The social worker encourages respect for individuality and patient choice, while collaborating on policies and systems that respect the cultural, religious, and ethnic difference among patients and families.
Essential Responsibilities:
* Participates as a member of the inpatient multidisciplinary care team providing social medicine expertise in response to care team referrals and case finding of high need populations (e.g. new diagnosis, terminal illness, loss of function, lack of social support, grief and bereavement, homeless, complex finances, etc.).
* Completes psychosocial assessments of hospitalized patients. Identifies psychosocial needs, develops,...