Job Description

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 Women and Children?s Services Lead Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California, is the Social Work team's point person for first-level escalated patient care consultations. The Lead will assist in identifying, developing, planning, implementing, and evaluating all psychosocial and social service-related interventions. The Lead develops and collaborates with the care team on patient and family care goals and treatment plans. The Lead will assist the team in continuously improving Social Work processes, taking the lead on training plans for new team members, assisting with periodic Documentation Audits and additional projects/tasks as necessary.

• Provide first-level escalation support for the Women and Children Services Team.
• Develop patient and family care goals and treatment plans as agreed upon by the patient's care team. Is available to physicians, nurses, and care management team as a consultant for those patients with complex psychosocial needs.
• Utilize clinical judgment in making recommendations that will assist in addressing psychosocial barriers to treatment and discharge planning, coordinates discharge to post-acute care resources as needed for often complex cases and under-resourced patients.
• Assist in training newly hired employees.
• Provide back-up support for staffing shortages.
• Participate in annual Audits.
• Responsible for the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of all social service-related interventions.
• Attends team rounds and participates in interdisciplinary collaborations.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Social Work

License/Certification/Registration Requirements:

• Completed LCSW Licensure
• Completed CCS (California Children's Services)-Paneled Provider - strongly preferred

What else are we looking for?

• 5-8 years of Social Work experience, of which 5 years is focused on Women?s and Children?s Services in an acute care hospital or healthcare Social Work setting
• Lead or supervisor experience strongly preferred

Why work here?

Beyond outstanding employee benefits (including health, vision, dental and life and insurance) we take pride in hiring the best employees. Our accomplished and compassionate staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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