Licensed Clinical Social Worker - eTeam Inc.

Job Title: Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Location: Lancaster, CA 
Pay Rate: $66 - $69/hour
Duration: 27 weeks
Shift: 7 am - 5:30 pm, Wed - Thurs
Required: CA LCSW, BLS (AHA) and 1+ years of relevant experience 
Duties: 

• The Clinical Social Worker provides crisis intervention, short term counseling, information and referrals for patients and their families, ranging in age from infants through geriatrics.
• Provides coordination of complex discharge planning needs and concrete service needs of patients.
• Leads educational and support groups.
• Provides consultation related to psychosocial aspects of care as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Serves as an expert in community resource programs.
• Is a liaison to community referral agencies, both public and private.
• Participates as a member of the Bioethics Committee.
• The Clinical Social Worker coordinates all aspects of social barriers to care with the case manager and the interdisciplinary team, to ensure effective, high quality, timely and cost-efficient results.
• The American Case Management Association places the role of Social Work in acute care hospitals in the realm of Case Management and describes the functions as follows: "Case Management (Social Work) in Hospital and Health Care Systems is a collaborative practice model including patients, nurses, social workers, physicians and other practitioners, caregivers and the community.
• The Case Management process encompasses communication and facilitates care along a continuum through effective resource coordination.
• The goals of Case Management include the achievement of optimal health access to care and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient's right to self-determination.