Ambulatory Social Worker - Care Transformation - PT - Days

Stormont Vail Health • Junction City, KS

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About The Position

Ambulatory Social Workers are professionals trained to provide social work/case management services to patients, their families, and their support persons/systems in both ambulatory and inpatient settings. This includes the professional activity of assisting individuals, families, groups, organizations or communities to enhance or restore the patient's capacity for social functioning and to create societal conditions favorable to their goals.

Requirements

• Experience in customer service.
• Licensed Bachelor Social Worker - KSBSRB (Temporary licensure may be accepted but full licensure must be achieved within 6 months of hire).
• Licensed Masters Social Worker - KSBSRB (Temporary licensure may be accepted but full licensure must be achieved within 6 months of hire).

Nice To Haves

• Clinical and/or medical social work experience.
• Experience in group work, case work, and community methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Participates in patient admission process (Inpatient, Outpatient, PHP, IOP) assisting as needed with signing of voluntary papers and serving as hospital representative and patient advocate.
• Coordinates and facilitates services for patients and their families throughout the entire Stormont Vail Health system.
• Performs social work assessments, demonstrating awareness of the bio-psychosocial, cultural, developmental and spiritual ramifications of illness and hospitalization.
• Develops appropriate case management and/or treatment plan based upon assessment, client/family/caregiver specific concerns and recommendations of multidisciplinary care team.
• Addresses patient/family/caregiver understanding of and adjustment to the illness, to maximize benefits of intervention and enhance patient/family/caregiver functioning.
• Establishes supportive and therapeutic working relationship with patient/family/caregivers.
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner with patients/families/caregivers regarding patient status and progress.
• Initiates discharge planning upon admission and assures these plans are coordinated with internal and external multidisciplinary teams.
• Develops and facilitates groups for patients and/or significant others as needed.
• Maintains professional levels of productivity and coordinates and prioritizes patient care related activities in an efficient and effective manner.
• Provides problem solving and leadership in the development of new services which respond to patient care demands.
• Maintains confidentiality and complies with professional ethics according to professional, departmental and Medical Center standards.
• Actively participates and initiates when appropriate in patient care conferences.
• Provides patient education regarding diagnosis and treatment.
• Provides crisis and/or brief therapy for individual, family and group.
• Assesses patient and family functioning at time of discharge or referral to another provider.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees