LCSW Palliative Care- JPS Main- Days

Job Summary: The Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Palliative Care is responsible for providing psychosocial assessments, and addressing psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual needs for assigned adult/geriatric patients and families facing irreversible serious illness. Provides crisis intervention, emotional support, counseling, education, and advocates for patients/families. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the treatment plan. Essential Job Functions Accountabilities: Conducts psychosocial assessments for patients and families to identify opportunities for intervention. Develops, implements, and evaluates patient treatment and care plans. Collaborates with patients, families, clinical staff, and the palliative care team to identify short and long-term goals of care. Participates in Interdisciplinary Team huddles and collaborates with other departments. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of various counseling modalities and how to work with the adult population. Provides counseling for grief/loss and identifies families at risk for complicated grief. Provides community resources and support relevant to the patient’s serious illness based on need. Provides education to patients and families regarding palliative care, advance care planning, and other needed services. Navigates challenging conversations about end-of-life decision-making while maintaining an inclusive framework that respects and identifies multicultural concerns, ethical issues, potential conflicts of interest, and spiritual or religious concerns. Collaborates with the clinical staff and the patient/family and provides interventions designed to minimize stress to expedite recovery. Maintains clinical competence for adult, geriatric, and palliative Social Work services and exhibits professional growth and development. Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Maintains electronic medical records with accuracy and in compliance with JPS standards. Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned. Must be able to complete all job duties and functions of the role with or without assistive/adaptive devices, and/or reasonable accommodations. Work environments may differ based on job functions and location. Work is subject to schedule changes and/or variable work hours.