Social Worker MSW (LCSW)

Company: Hartford HealthCare
Location: Hartford
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

Description Job Schedule: Full Time Standard Hours: 40 Job Shift: Shift 1 Shift Details: Work where every moment matters.
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Every day, almost 30,000 Hartford HealthCare employees come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network.
Hartford Hospital is one of the largest and most respected teaching hospitals New England. We are a Level 1 Trauma Center that provides cutting edge treatment to its patients. This is made possible by being home to the largest robotic surgery center in the Northeast and the Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESI), one of the most-advanced medical simulation training centers in the world. When hospitals cannot provide the advanced care, expertise and new treatment options their patients require, they turn to us.
Job Summary:
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Provide complex social work services as a member of an interprofessional team; care that is informed by comprehensive biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment, intervention and treatment. - Demonstrates strong advocacy skills; Requires activated and engaged social worker exerting discretionary effort. - Values holistic patient-centered and family-focused care. Will work effectively on a complex interprofessional team.
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Women's Ambulatory Health Services
Women's Ambulatory Health Services provides excellent care and responds to our community's needs, offering informed and dignified care for all our patients.
Clinical Social Work Practice Serving on an interprofessional team of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and nutritionists. The Women's Health Service provides obstetrical and gynecological care.
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This role as a Health Social Work offers opportunity for a mix of micro, mezzo, and macro level intervention including planning and providing education and support programs, and community collaboration.
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Job Responsibilities:




1. - - - - Maintains ethical principles and professional standards of practice in adherence to NASW Code of Ethics




2. - - - - Recognizes and addresses health disparities-inequalities and injustices directed toward clients, related to access to care and provision of health services




3. - - - - Develops and maintain cultural competence with an understanding of the history, traditions, values, and family systems of client groups as they relate to health care and decision-making. Display a sensitivity to and awareness of the diversity in cultural groups and integrate this knowledge into their practice




4. - - - - Independently provides ongoing assessment, including gathering comprehensive information to use in developing interventions and treatment strategies.




5. - - - - Independently implements intervention and treatment plans that promote client well-being and ensure a continuum of care. Planning shall be based on a comprehensive, culturally competent assessment with interdisciplinary input.




6. - - - - Optimize client functioning through case management that facilitates collaboration among providers to address the client's biomedical and psychosocial needs to better provide efficient, appropriate, and beneficial health care services to a client with multiple needs.




7. - - - - Responsible to advocate for the needs and interests of patients including advocating for larger system change to improve access to care and improved delivery of services.




8. - - - - Act as educators for patients, families, the community, and other professionals regarding disease prevention, impact of illness and disease progression, advocacy for benefits, health maintenance, and adherence to treatment regimens.




9. - - - - Participates in interprofessional care teams, and collaborate with other professionals, volunteers, and groups in and outside of their practice setting to enhance all aspects of the patient and family system's care.



Qualifications Hold a master's degree from a social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
One to two years LCSW work experience in a healthcare setting
Required: - Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C), preferred
Bilingual in Spanish and English
Must be able to communicate effectively; effective written communication; clear expression, proper language to resonate with intended audience; constructing a logical argument; brevity; and making the intended point succinctly.
Computer literacy.
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We take great care of careers.
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With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. - We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees-- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment.
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