LCSW

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Deliver care with heart

Compassionate care

Lagniappe in care

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans, LA is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to advocate for patients and coordinate psychosocial care across the multidisciplinary team. You’ll assess needs, counsel patients and families, and support discharge planning for complex medical cases.

Responsibilities include crisis intervention, reporting suspected abuse, connecting families with community resources, and ensuring patient rights and advance directives are understood.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Louisiana required.
• Ability to assess psychosocial needs and discharge planning.
• Experience handling elder/child/abuse reports and safety planning.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing with patient and family.
• Evaluate coping skills, support systems, and resources affecting illness and discharge plans.
• Identify barriers and plan interventions to improve outcomes.
• Communicate findings and plans to interdisciplinary team and document in medical records.
• Provide crisis intervention and supportive counseling as needed.
• Assess cases of suspected elder, child, sexual or domestic abuse or neglect.
• Comply with reporting requirements per state law and hospital policy.
• Refer to community resources for palliative or hospice services and facilitate family meetings.
• Coordinate with DCFS/EPS or other agencies as required.
• Identify complex social/medical issues within caseload and initiate referrals.

Skills

Empathy

Counseling

Advocacy

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

LCSW license (Louisiana)

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

Your job is more than a job. You’re a life preserver for countless patients because, as a Social Worker, you’re the hub of your patients’ multidisciplinary team advocating, assessing, counseling, and supporting individual psychosocial needs and discharge planning resources for complex medical problems. As your patient’s clinical care partner with expertise in care management, you’re a critical asset along the care journey identifying and overcoming barriers and offering resource options, in particular for chronically ill and end-of-life care. Through it all, you remain positive, upbeat and dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes.

In the midst of emotional and physical pain and vulnerability, you’re a sanctuary of support and understanding as you celebrate the small victories. If it were your loved one, you’d expect nothing less, so you give so much more. We love that about you.

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and your “little something extra” all add up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this complex patient advocate and social worker role.

Your Everyday

• Conduct assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patient and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary team and reviewing medical records.
• Evaluate coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, other factors that could affect responses to illness, treatment and discharge plan.
• Identify barriers and plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcome as evidenced by treatment plan.
• Communicate findings, plan to interdisciplinary team and documents assessment, plan and interventions in medical records.
• Provide crises intervention and supportive counseling for individuals experiencing a temporary or situational problem.
• Assess cases of suspected elder, child, sexual or domestic abuse or neglect.
• Comply with required reporting, according to state law and hospital policy.
• Refer patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling such as palliative or hospice services as needed and facilitate family meetings to help with decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care and plan of care.
• Facilitate interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies.
• Identify patients in assigned caseload with complex social and medical issues through case finding and referral process.
• Review caseload with manager to share findings, needs, barriers and progress to discharge.
• Evaluate financial assistance needs and eligibility and directs patients/family to appropriate community agencies which can assist in meeting financial needs, or providing food, shelter, transportation or other services.
• Maintain a working knowledge of payor reimbursement requirements for post hospital services and community resources.
• Demonstrate knowledge of legal rights advance directives and patient rights with ability to counsel/educate patients/families regarding patient rights, decision making and formulating advance directives.

The Must-Haves

• Minimum:
• Bachelor’s degree
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) through the Louisiana State Board of Social Worker Examiners.

WORK SHIFT:

Days (United States of America) LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

About East Jefferson General Hospital

East Jefferson General Hospital, a landmark of LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been the go-to hospital for health, wellness, and one-of-a-kind care in East Jefferson Parish for over 50 years. And we’re only beginning to realize our greatest potential. Learn more about East Jefferson General Hospital and our legacy, our future, and our national recognition as a Nurse Magnet Hospital.

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems - it's all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do
• You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Simple things make the difference.