Social Worker - Community Health (LSW/LCSW)
Company: CARLE
Location: Champaign
Posted on: September 23, 2024
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Job Description:
The Social Worker for Community Health Initiatives 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. This SW
will also serve patients/families on board the Mobile Health Clinic
performing Social Determinants of Health and providing appropriate
referrals/resources. 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.
Keywords: CARLE, Champaign , Social Worker - Community Health (LSW/LCSW), Healthcare , Champaign, Illinois
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