LVAD Program Social Worker
Healthcare
LVADProgramSocialWorker
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“LVAD Program Social Worker at LVAD Program Social Worker. Skills: Social Work, Patient Advocacy, Psychosocial Assessment. Conduct assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs. Interview patient and family members”
Industry & Context.
Problem solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Licensed Master Social Worker
What You'll Do.
Conduct assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs
Interview patient and family members
Confer with interdisciplinary team
Review medical records
Evaluate coping skills
Evaluate cognitive functioning
Evaluate intellectual functioning
Evaluate support systems
Identify barriers to treatment
Plan intervention to overcome barriers
Communicate findings to team
Document interventions
Provide crisis intervention
Provide supportive counseling
Assess suspected abuse or neglect
Comply with reporting requirements
Refer patients to community agencies
Facilitate family meetings
Facilitate interactions with agencies
Identify patients with complex issues
Review caseload with manager
Evaluate financial assistance needs
Evaluate financial assistance eligibility
Direct patients to financial assistance agencies
Maintain knowledge of payor requirements
Maintain knowledge of community resources
Demonstrate knowledge of legal rights
Demonstrate knowledge of advance directives
Demonstrate knowledge of patient rights
Counsel patients on patient rights
Educate patients on patient rights
Counsel patients on decision making
Educate patients on decision making
Counsel patients on formulating advance directives
Educate patients on formulating advance directives
Conduct psychosocial evaluation of LVAD patient
Identify social support for patient
Identify social support for caregiver
Assess patient compliance
Assess caregiver compliance
Assess substance misuse/abuse
Assess understanding of MCS process
Assess motivation for MCS
Assess communication style
Assess learning style
Assess importance of body image
Enhance effective functioning of VAD patient
Enhance well-being of VAD patient
Enhance effective functioning of VAD families
Enhance well-being of VAD families
Collaborate with circulatory clinical team
Follow patients throughout LVAD course
Tailor interventions to psychosocial assessment
Tailor resource allocation to psychosocial assessment
Host support groups for patients
Host support groups for caregivers
Offer mental health support
Provide referrals to mental health services
Support the caregiver
Support patient goals
Support care team goals
Work towards alignment with medical team
Work towards alignment with treatment plans
Explore impacts of behavioral patterns
Explore impacts of Social Determinants of Health
Assist patient through end of life care
Assist family through end of life care
Collaborate with Palliative Care teams
Facilitate family support within heart failure team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Interdisciplinary team; Circulatory clinical team; Heart failure team
Communication Scope
Intensive interviewing
Full 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
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