Social Worker (LCSW) - Healthy Beginnings
Company: CARLE
Location: Camargo
Posted on: March 19, 2023
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Job Description:
Job Description:
The Social Worker Home Visitor ' Healthy Beginnings provides
professional services to clients and their families eligible for
the Healthy Beginnings Services in order to meet identified
psychosocial, emotional, financial and environmental needs. The
social worker provides psychosocial assessments, supportive
counseling, emergent crisis intervention appropriate to setting,
financial resource information, environment enhancements, advance
directive planning and referrals to community agencies for clients
and their caregivers/families in the client's home, mobile health
clinic (MHC), or other settings. Using an interdisciplinary team
approach, the social worker ensures clear communication and helps
to facilitate care transitions. The social worker identifies and
implements interventions at the individual and systemic levels and
provides expertise to high risk clients across the continuum. The
social worker works collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary
team to support the RN performing at the highest level of their
license in addition to maximizing the social worker's specialized
training to address complex cases. Social Services are provided as
part of a collaboration with interdisciplinary teams in adherence
to the NFP model, and to policies, procedures, guidelines, and
standards of NFP and of the Carle Health System.Involves client and
family in case planning decisions.Provides social work intervention
to clients and their families eligible for the Healthy Beginnings
and/or Mobile Health Clinic services.Helps to facilitate care
transitions, referrals to scoial services, and other specialits
when needed.Keeps the director/manager informed of problematic
cases, especially those involving legal or risk management
issues.Provides assistance and advocacy to clients in obtaining
financial resources and government entitlements.Develops and
maintains tracking system of social services referrals
/outcomes.Provides information and counseling for advance
directives and health care power of attorney.Provides social work
intervention to patient/families eligible for the NFP
Program.Responds to referrals from healthcare team members to
identify available services for case specific needs.Collaborates
with nurse home visitors / supervisors / mobile health clinic staff
to meet the needs of high risk populations.Details (direct or
incidental) possible to enhance service/care is communicated across
service lines and among disciplines.Documents all client
interactions, significant observations, interventions, and actions
taken in the client's medical record in an appropriate and timely
manner.Formulates, develops, and implements a plan utilizing
appropriate social work interventions. Provides education and
counseling to clients and families around issues related to
adaptation to the client's illness and/or life situation. May
utilize crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, group,
and family therapies.Facilitates education/training modules to
assist RN staff managing basic social work needs.As
requested/required, participates in community coalition in support
of NFP as well as promotes public awareness ofHealthy Beginnings
Services and the Mobile Health Clinic.Develops and maintains
community relationships to support client referrals.Assesses
physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental needs of
clientsand their families as they relate to the NFP domains.Assists
clients and their families in establishing goals and outcomes
through therapeutic relationships by providing education, support,
and referral resources.Consults and collaborates with other
professionals involved in providing services to women and
families.Perform other duties as assigned.
Keywords: CARLE, Champaign , Social Worker (LCSW) - Healthy Beginnings, Healthcare , Camargo, Illinois
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