Provides social work services including assessment, care planning, and case coordination to patients and their families. Provides consultation to staff and other health care providers. Initiates social work plan of care.  Serves as liaison between  and community to integrate services, coordinate care for clients, and enhance relationships through public relations activities.

• Prepares and evaluates assessments, development and implementation of social work service plans.
• Provides psychosocial assessment, diagnostic impressions, treatment of individuals/couples/families/groups, prevention of psychosocial dysfunction/disability/impairment including emotional/mental/behavioral disorders, and evaluation of practice effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions.
• Helps enhance or restore personal and social functioning.
• Performs case management, coordination, casework intervention, and monitoring of social work service plans in areas of personal, social, or economic resources, conditions, or problems.