<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Position Objective:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Provides psychosocial assessment, individual, family and group therapy to case load of patients. assessments, plans for and implements identified services for patients. Works with the patient and family/significant others on a safe discharge plan. Collaborates with the provider and interdisciplinary team on the care plan.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Essential Job Duties:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions</span></p><ol><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">In accordance with established department and professional guidelines, provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments for patients on case load. In therapy role, creates a therapeutic framework for effective problem solving with patient and family. Responds to patient/family needs related mental health issues.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">In collaboration with Care Coordinator, provides transition of care strategies in complex situations such as: substance abuse, psychiatric, or dual diagnosis placement/services, ventilator dependent patients, inpatient dialysis services, patients with no insurance needing skilled nursing facility placement, patients requiring guardianship, long term/custodial placement.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Identifies community services and resources available to patients and families and facilitates linkage with those services.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and communicates to him/her the progress and status of patients. Makes recommendations and revises plan based on continued evaluation and collaboration. Communicates proactively with members of interdisciplinary team.Evaluates patient/family progress toward established goals. Participates in rounds as indicated to address patient/family issues/barriers and to help facilitate safe transitions of care.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Integrates medical record and nursing information in assessment and interventions.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Ensures timely, appropriate, and accurate evaluation and reporting of suspected child/elder abuse and or neglect. Assesses for domestic violence issues and involves domestic violence program coordinator as indicated and appropriate.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Documents interventions in patient's medical record following department standards.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Participates in process improvement activities in the Mental Health and Substance Use Quality Council. Identifies opportunities for improvement and recommends.</span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions</span></p><ol><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">In accordance with established department and professional guidelines, provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments for patients identified by distress screening, care team referral and/or self-referral.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">In counseling role, creates a therapeutic framework for effective problem solving with patient and family. Responds to patient/family needs related to adjustment to illness, disability, critical care issues, acceptance of discharge recommendations, need for long-term care placement, end of life, grief, trauma, abuse and neglect, substance abuse, and mental health issues.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Promotes social work and other psychosocial services to the care team and proactively identifies and provides services to patients who may benefit from social work services.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: