Mental Health Therapist - LCSW - Per Diem - MultipleLocations

UFCW Local 7 - $43.33 -

$64.71

Job Summary :

Practices professional social work with

responsibility for providing, supporting or coordinating palliative

care to patients with an advanced illness and their families.

Supports and coordinates the comprehensive and effective delivery

of palliative care services according to scope and assigned tasks,

within various settings. Strong interpersonal skills needed to work

with patients and families, community partners, providers and other

medical office and hospital staff. Makes member / patients and their

needs a primary focus of ones actions; develops and sustains

productive member / patient relationships. Actively seeks information

to understand member / patient circumstances, problems, expectations,

and needs. Builds rapport and cooperative relationships with

members / patients. Considers how actions or plans will affect

members; responds quickly to meet member / patient needs and resolves

problems.

Essential Responsibilities :

This position, knows and

complies with all Kaiser Permanente quality, safety, and emergency

policies and procedures. Demonstrates quality and effectiveness in

work habits and clinical practice in every interaction with

patients, colleagues, providers, and leadership. Ensures patient

safety in the preparation and provisioning of care related to but

not limited to medications, procedures, infection prevention, fall

prevention, including consistent use of two patient identifiers and

procedural time outs. Reports safety hazards, accidents and

incidents, and unsafe working conditions promptly.

Accountable for consistently demonstrating

service behaviors and principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente

Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission as well as specific

departmental / organizational initiatives. Also accountable for

consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and

behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive

service to each other, to our members, and to purchasers,

contracted providers and vendors.

Collects subjective and objective data. Analyzes, reports, and

records data. Uses data to identify psychosocial problems and

create plan.

Prioritizes patients

needs. Triage patients either in person or via telephone and

implements proper course of action in accordance with established

protocol / guideline or in consultation with provider. Conducts

telephone call backs to patients requiring follow-up care.

Evaluates emergency situations

within scope and initiates appropriate social work interventions.

Participates in program

development.

Documents care

planning and member outcomes.

Practices within scope of practice parameters as inferred by

licensure, standard social work practice, knowledge, skill level,

sound clinical judgment, and KP guidelines.

Accurately documents patient data, actions or

interventions, responses, and plans for care / follow-up according to

guidelines and / or standard social work practice.

Executes delegated functions which deliver

aspects of care that implement and are consistent with the care

plan as prescribed by a licensed or otherwise legally authorized

physician or person acting under the physicians delegated

authority.

Facilitates the

coordination and integration of care between health care services.

Specialty Position

Responsibilities may vary according to program service and may

include but are not limited to the following : Performs

bio-psychosocial-spiritual assessment of the person in environment,

in order to determine best level of care, Coaches member and the

family system to prepare for shared decision making. Provides

psychotherapeutic and family systems interventions as needed within

the context of advanced illness care coordination (AICC) and brief

solution-focused therapy. Assists the patient / family in identifying

personal goals of care and preferences for end-of-life care, and

promoting communication of advance directives. Collaborates to

build strong, effective relationships with referrers and their

teams and with partner agency care staff to assist in development

and communication of plans for co-management of patients and their

transition to the next care setting. Teaches palliative care

modalities to providers, referral sources and members. Assists in

maintaining data for monitoring / evaluating program outcomes.

Assists in identifying patients appropriate to the palliative care

department. Attends interdisciplinary team rounds with partner

agencies to assist with interventions for complex patients, in

conjunction with the Palliative Care MD and team. Acts as

liaison / interface with KP providers and resources within the

system. Identifies possible problems in all care delivery systems

which care for our palliative care patients. Assists with

development and implementation of solutions for service providers

and staff.

In addition to defined

technical requirements, accountable for consistently demonstrating

service behaviors and principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente

Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission as well as specific

departmental / organizational initiatives. Also accountable for

consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and

behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive

service to each other, to our members, and to purchasers,

contracted providers and vendors.

Note : The union and the company are currently reviewing the

qualifications and duties of this position. If it is determined

that the qualifications or duties should be changed, seniority

dates, dues payments, etc. will be applied on a retroactive basis

based on the employment commencement date.

Basic

Qualifications : Experience

Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a

social worker, with at least two (2) years experience caring for

the chronically and terminally ill adults and their families,

including children.

Education

Masters degree in Social

Work.

License, Certification, Registration

N / A

Additional Requirements :

Demonstrated

customer service skills, customer focus abilities and the ability

to understand KP customer needs a must.

Strong clinical psychosocial counseling skills

a must.

Excellent patient

assessment, history taking, interpersonal and independent working

skills required.

Maintains

knowledge of and assures departmental compliance with KP policies,

social work practice, state regulatory requirements and

accreditation standards.

Preferred Qualifications :

Hospice or palliative care experience preferred, including

effective collaborative team practice.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker strongly

preferred and must be attained as soon as supervision requirements

are met.

Basic Life Support (BLS)

preferred, may be required depending on location of services.

Preferred competencies include

strong working knowledge of medical conditions and terms, pain and

symptom assessment, integrating spiritual / cultural aspects of care

into clinical practice, health disparities reduction skills, strong

understanding of anticipatory and family bereavement, death and

dying studies and family and team collaboration and negotiation

skills that honor patient wishes.

Familiarity with databases and word processing programs preferred.

Notes :

PRN Flexible location to

include Rock Creek, Franklin, Lone Tree, St. Anthony Hospital, St.

Anthony North, Swedi