Social Worker MSW - ED/Transplant

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it’s just one of the many reasons we’ve achieved our six-consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. From working with a team of premier healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have everything you need to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others. Join us, and discover why we are tied #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.

• The Social Worker MSW - ED/Transplant Float SW at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California provides a full range of social work services in collaboration with other Cedars-Sinai Medical Center staff to meet the psychosocial and discharge planning needs of patients/families/significant others.
• Active participation in Department's continuing education/staff development programs.
• Involved in program planning in assigned service areas along with the organization of social work activities.
• Provides social work services to patients and their families with psychosocial needs.
• To assure patients receive benefit from medical and/or psychiatric care and post-hospital planning.

• What's this role all about?
• Psychosocial evaluation -- identification of problems affecting efficient patient care and the development of a treatment plan.
• Crisis intervention.
• Individual and family counseling.
• Discharge planning and case coordination.
• Interdisciplinary discussion of psychosocial implications of illness including consultation regarding treatments and resources designed to tackle the problems of the patients.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with community health, welfare, and social agencies.
• Initiates program planning and development in assigned services/programs.