Salary Range: $41.15/hour - $48.41/hour

Job Summary:

Facilitates appropriate use of health care resources across the continuum of care and addresses those psychosocial aspects that interfere with patients optimal health functioning.

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.

• Contributes to optimal health outcomes of members by assessing and intervening in psychosocial problems, determining components of problems and contributing factors and evaluating emotional components and impact of illness.

• Participates in program development, orientation, and education activities that foster members capability to better direct their own health care experience (e.g. support/education group).

• Develops and implements staff training related to psychosocial issues of health to provide cross training of employees, specific to job related training and other approaches to provide opportunities for staff flexibility and development.

• Ensures that the social work interventions are effective, appropriate, and timely by maintaining thorough knowledge of Kaiser Permanente services and benefits, public income maintenance programs, public and private community resources, federal/state laws and departmental policies and procedures.

• Contributes to the development and implementation of cost-effective, appropriate healthcare plans by assisting members with accessing community resources and appropriate access to medical care.

• Promotes multidisciplinary care planning in developing outpatient continuity of care that is patient-centered and considers all aspects of the patient/family personal, psychosocial/economic and cultural needs.

• Ensures that the developed treatment plan includes necessary assistance to patient, family members and others to cope more effectively with the patients illness and trauma.

• Complies with and observes established departmental policies and procedures, objects, records, reports, files, quality improvements, safety, environment and infection control standards.

  Basic Qualifications:

  Experience

• Minimum three (3) years of professional level experience.

• Minimum one (1) year of experience in a health care field.

  Education

• Master of Social Work from an accredited college or university.

  License, Certification, Registration

• Licensed Social Worker (Colorado)

  Additional Requirements:

• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other employees, organizations and the public.

• Skill in utilizing the principles and practices of effective and persuasive communication to elicit and/or present explanatory or interpretive information.

• Skill in securing and utilizing community resources to make referrals appropriate to the patients needs.

• Knowledge of social work practices and policies sufficient to be able to assess, diagnose and determine factors disrupting the patients daily life.

• Thorough knowledge of the psychosocial problems related to medical conditions.

• Knowledge of counseling skills for victims of domestic violence, child abuse, end of life issues and other social concerns effecting patient health.

• Working knowledge of Kaiser Permanentes organizational and benefits structure, and of public and private community resources.

  Preferred Qualifications:

• LCSW preferred.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Oncology Case Coordinator - LCSW - Lafayette

LOCATION: Lafayette, Colorado

REQNUMBER: 1271848

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.