Provides social work services including assessment, care planning, and case coordination to patients and their families. Consultations may occur in their home environment. Provides consultation to staff and other health care providers. Initiates social work plan of care. Serves as liaison between Kaiser Permanente and community to integrate services, coordinate care for clients, and enhance relationships through public relations activities.

• Prepares and evaluates assessments, development and implementation of social work service plans.
• Provides psychosocial assessment, diagnostic impressions, treatment of individuals/couples/families/groups, prevention of psychosocial dysfunction/disability/impairment including emotional/mental/behavioral disorders, and evaluation of practice effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions.
• Helps enhance or restore personal and social functioning.
• Performs case management, coordination, casework intervention, and monitoring of social work service plans in areas of personal, social, or economic resources, conditions, or problems.
• Provides information, resource identification and referral services, mediation services, advocacy services, and education of individuals, groups, couples, and families.
• Consultations may occur in their home environment as needed by physician orders.
• Coordinates services and assures patients placement in an appropriate setting.
• Assists with administration, development, implementation, and evaluation of social work programs and policies.
• Conducts social work consultation and resource development.
• Plans for and participates in development activities to keep abreast of current trends in medical social work.
• Participates in performance improvement.
• Implements Quality Improvement processes.
• Assists with development and implementation of departments annual work-plan.
• Performs clinical record audits.
• Maintains educational record and provides evidence of competency.
• Conducts research through formal design/methodology of data collection and analysis/evaluation of data, social work programs, social systems, and social policies.
• Documents according to departmental standards, Federal and State regulations.
• Assures medical record documentation.
• Participates in departmental functions such as staff meetings, staff in-services, and committees, as assigned. Participates in orientation of new personnel.

• N/A

• Masters degree in social work.

• Basic Life Support required at hire from American Heart Association

• Drivers License (in location where applicable)

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Hawaii) OR Licensed Social Worker (Hawaii)

• Healthcare experience working with medical diagnoses.
• Demonstrated ability in networking with community agencies.

• Minimum one (1) year social work experience.

PrimaryLocation : Hawaii,Honolulu,Moanalua Ancillary Building
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-HI-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care
Department : Moanalua Medical Center - Hospice - Internal - Other - 1201
Travel : Yes, 75 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.