Robert Aviles

Social Worker Lvl Ii - Behavorial Health L Adult Inpatient Psychiatry @Nyc Health Hospitals Lincoln

NY, US

Completes Social Work Comprehensive Assessment/ Admission Note for all patients referred or in need of social services in accordance with departmental high/moderate risk criteria policy.• Complies with social work-psychiatry departments\' documentation and it requirements.• Provides psychosocial information for patients transferring to other units to ensure continuity of care.• Conducts interviews with patients and/or family members{s)/significant others(s) to determine continuing care needs.• Provides supportive counseling, crisis intervention, and grief counseling to patients and their families/significant others as appropriate.• Assists patients with adjustment to treatment, including problems of depression, anxiety, denial and/or anger; noncompliance with medical regimen.• Implements a social work treatment/continuing care plan involving the patient & interdisciplinary team and documents on the patient\'s medical record in accordance to the departmental policy.• Provides information, referral and advocacy to community agencies.• Advocates and serves as a liaison for patients with community agencies.• Coordinates individual interdisciplinary case conference as needed.• Provides task supervision to caseworkers when designated.• Provides direct/task supervision to social work students when designated.• Identifies, evaluates and designs proper safety plans for victims of crimes/abuse.• Maintains and completes statistics of case activities as outlined in the departmental policy.• Monitors patient performance by reviewing medical records for appropriate documentation.• Escorts patients for placement interviews when appropriate and/or indicated by supervisor.• Attends individual, unit, departmental and intra/inter hospital meetings as mandated by the supervisor and/or department director.• Coordinates and executes discharge plans for hospital patients.• Responds and participates in external and internal disasters when indicated/assigned by supervisor.