Social Worker - Bilingual in Spanish
Company: LCMC Health
Location: New Orleans
Posted on: November 26, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description Your job is more than a job. The Social Worker
for the Trauma Program provides clinical social work services for
patients and their families. Responsible for psychosocial
assessments and discharge planning for patients with complex
psychosocial and medical problems. Assists patients and their
families in coping with difficulties related to hospital admission,
illness, treatment, and discharge. Provides assessment, planning
intervention, and evaluation of patient/family needs throughout the
hospital stay. Your Everyday Schedule: Monday - Friday, Day shift
Completes psychosocial assessment, develops plans and carries out
interventions for patients identified through referral and case
finding to have psychosocial risk factors. Conducts assessment of
patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of
patient and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary team,
and reviewing medical record. Evaluates coping skills, cognitive
and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, and other
factors, that could affect responses to illness, treatment and
discharge plan. Identifies barriers and plans for intervention to
overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcome as evidenced by
treatment plan. Communicates findings and plan to interdisciplinary
team. Documents assessment, plan and interventions in medical
record. Provides short term supportive counseling for individuals
experiencing a temporary or situational problem. Performs
assessment for cases of suspected elder, child, sexual or domestic
abuse or neglect. Complies with required reporting, according to
state law and hospital policy. Utilizes crisis intervention skills
to assist victims/families of child abuse, elder abuse, domestic
violence, sexual/criminal assault and traumatic injury. Acts as
active team member in the discharge planning process with primary
responsibility for identifying complicating social and financial
factors and barriers to appropriate discharge. Facilitates family
meetings when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals
of care and plan of care. Collaborates with the health care team to
help resolve family conflict around care decisions. Maintains a
working knowledge of available community resources by establishing
a relationship with liaisons and admissions staff at agencies and
facilities in the region. The Must-Haves LICENSES AND
CERTIFICATIONS Licensed Social Worker (LCSW or LMSW) from the
Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners Bilingual in Spanish
strongly preferred WORK SHIFT: Days (United States of America)
Keywords: LCMC Health, New Orleans , Social Worker - Bilingual in Spanish, Social Services , New Orleans, Louisiana
