SHR-Licensed Social Worker Honolulu Inpatient - On Call Day Shift

Confidential; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente seeks a Social Worker to provide assessment, care planning, and case coordination for patients and families, while offering consultation to staff and other health care providers. The role initiates social work plans of care and supports overall program development.

The position includes psychosocial assessment, treatment of individuals and groups, case management, referrals, advocacy, and education efforts.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in social work required.
• Licensed Social Worker (Hawaii) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Hawaii) required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) by hire date from American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison between Kaiser Permanente and community to coordinate care and enhance relationships.
• Perform psychosocial assessments and develop social work service plans for patients and families.
• Provide case management, resource identification, referrals, mediation, advocacy, and education to individuals and groups.
• Contribute to development, implementation, and evaluation of social work programs and policies, and participate in performance improvement.

Skills

Community networking

Medical diagnoses understanding

Education

Masters degree in social work

Job description

Job Summary

Provides social work services including assessment, care planning, and case coordination to patients and their families. Provides consultation to staff and other health care providers. Initiates social work plan of care.

Essential Responsibilities

Serves as liaison between Kaiser Permanente and community to integrate services, coordinate care for clients, and enhance relationships through public relations activities.

Prepares and evaluates assessments, development and implementation of social work service plans. Provides psychosocial assessment, diagnostic impressions, treatment of individuals/couples/families/groups, prevention of psychosocial dysfunction/disability/impairment including emotional/mental/behavioral disorders, and evaluation of practice effectiveness. Applies knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions. Helps enhance or restore personal and social functioning.

Performs case management, coordination, casework intervention, and monitoring of social work service plans in areas of personal, social, or economic resources, conditions, or problems. Provides information, resource identification and referral services, mediation services, advocacy services, and education of individuals, groups, couples, and families. Coordinates services and assures patients placement in an appropriate setting.

Assists with administration, development, implementation, and evaluation of social work programs and policies. Conducts social work consultation and resource development. Plans for and participates in development activities to keep abreast of current trends in medical social work. Participates in performance improvement. Implements Quality Improvement processes. Assists with development and implementation of departments annual work-plan. Performs clinical record audits. Maintains educational record and provides evidence of competency.

Conducts research through formal design/methodology of data collection and analysis/evaluation of data, social work programs, social systems, and social policies. Documents according to departmental standards, Federal and State regulations. Assures medical record documentation.

Participates in departmental functions such as staff meetings, staff in-services, and committees, as assigned. Participates in orientation of new personnel.

Basic Qualifications

ExperienceN/AEducationMasters degree in social work.License, Certification, Registration

Licensed Social Worker (Hawaii) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Hawaii)Basic Life Support required at hire from American Heart Association

Additional Requirements

Healthcare experience working with medical diagnoses.Demonstrated ability in networking with community agencies.

Preferred Qualifications

Minimum one (1) year social work experience