**Description:**
*_General Summary_*
The Transplant Social Worker for Jewish Hospital Transplant Center has accountability for conducting complex psychosocial evaluations of potential recipients and donors, providing formal recommendations to program specific transplant selection committees, attending outpatient clinics, monitoring and documenting patient adherence, leading educational classes and support groups, counseling patients, assisting with complex discharge plans and providing 24/7 emergent transplant assessments.
*_Primary Accountabilities / Responsibilities_*
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*1. **Clinical Skills*
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1. Conducts psychosocial evaluations of potential recipients and living donors to identify barriers to candidacy for transplant/LVAD or donation, ensure lack of coercion and address psychosocial risks per UNOS/OPTN and CMS guidelines. Provides formal recommendation to the program specific transplant selection committees as to whether the patient is appropriate for transplant, LVAD or donation.
b. Provides 24/7 emergent psychosocial assessments as needed.
c. Counsels patients related to chronic illness, transplantation or donation.
d. Monitors and documents patient adherence with compliance contracts, and also pre-transplant drug, alcohol and nicotine screening.
e. Monitors and documents patient adherence with compliance contracts, and also pre-transplant drug, alcohol and nicotine screening.
f. If patient referred by the team to attend Intensive Alcohol Program or is mandated to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, the social worker will follow up with the program where patient attends to determine compliance. The social worker will denote name of treatment program, counselor at program and phone number in the transplant database, VELOS.
g. Will assist patients in accessing community resources as indicated both pre and post transplantation.
h. Provide education about advance directives and assist as needed with completion of those documents.
1. Attends multidisciplinary team rounds, and sees in-house patients in consultation as requested by transplant team.
j. Assists with completion and appropriateness of complex discharge plan and communicates plan of care to team.
k. Attends outpatient clinic as needed to obtain updates on psychosocial status, provide crisis intervention and to facilitate referrals for necessary services.
l. Is responsible for the monthly support group schedule, the group’s purpose is to address coping with pre and post transplant issues, caregiver topics, financial concerns and substance abuse relapse prevention.
m. Attends monthly program specific quality meetings as well as monthly Transplant Initiatives and Quality meeting.
n. Will assist with projects and quality measures that involve psychosocial indicators and processes.
*_Skills Assessment_*
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*1. **Accountability*
a. Documents in the medical record (VELOS) according to departmental / hospital policies and procedures and regulatory guidelines. ***Assessments should be documented in VELOS within 3 business days of assessment***
b. Complies with departmental standards for submission and accuracy of reports.
c. Complies with required standards for medical / legal reporting situations and/or educates other professionals with responsibilities for reporting.
*2. **Professional Development Activities*
a. Participates in and utilizes supervision to assess skill level, identify areas for professional growth and establish mutually agreed-upon goals.
b. Identifies and maintains current knowledge base regarding practice issues related to the population and the ages of the patients served.
c. Attends professional transplant society meetings and in-services.
*3. **Program Development / Teaching / Research*
a. Demonstrates initiatives and provides leadership in developing services that respond to patient care demands and educating interdisciplinary team members on psychosocial issues affecting patients, family and staff.
b. Identifies opportunities for and utilizes continuous quality improvement.
c. Assists with and provides clinical supervision to social work staff, students and volunteers.
**Qualifications:**
*_Minimum Education_*
Master’s Degree from a Council on Social Work Education accredited graduate school
*_Minimum Years in Field_*
5 – 7 years
*_Minimum Job Qualifications_*
1. Current Kentucky License
2. Master’s Degree from a Council on Social Work Education accredited graduate school
3. CSW required
4. Transplant, Dialysis, Psychiatric experience a plus
*_Skills_*
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Typing 40WPM
*Additional Responsibilities:*
* Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.
* Adheres to and exhibits our core values:
*Reverence:*Having a profound spirit of awe and respect for all creation, shaping relationships to self, to one another and to God and acknowledging that we hold in trust all that has been given to us.
*Integrity:*Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity as a basis of trustworthiness.
*Compassion:*Feeling with others, being one with others in their sorrows and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members of the human community.
*Excellence:*Outstanding achievement, merit, virtue; continually surpassing standards to achieve/maintain quality.
* Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.
* Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines.
* Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.
* Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the broader health care community.
/Catholic Health Initiatives and its organizations are Equal Opportunity EmployersCBKYONE/
**Job:** Social Services
**Primary Location:** KENTUCKY-LOUISVILLE-JEWISH HOSPITAL
**Shift:** 1
**Scheduled Hours per 2-week Pay Period:** 80
**Weekends Required:** Occasional
**Req ID:** 2015-R0031841