Per Diem - CLIN SOCIAL WORKER 2 - Days - Fountain Valley

University of California, Irvine•Fountain Valley, CA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Position Summary: The Social Worker is responsible to facilitate care along a continuum through effective resource coordination to help patients achieve optimal health, access to care and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient’s resources and right to self-determination. The individual in this position has overall responsibility for to assess the patient for transition needs including identifying and assessing patients at risk for readmission. Conducts complex psycho-social assessment and intervention to promote timely throughput, safe discharge and prevent avoidable readmissions. This position integrates national standards for case management scope of services including: Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention and patient satisfaction, Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is the right sequence and at appropriate level of care, Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards and Tenet policy, Education provided to physicians, patients, families and caregivers, Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resource to Tenet performance standards.

Requirements

Minimum Education: Master of Social Work (MSW) degree.
Minimum Experience: Two (2) to three (3) years of social work experience in an acute hospital setting is desired.
Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties
Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System

Nice To Haves

Capacity to deal with complex cases.
Ability to apply psychosocial assessment to an adult (18 years or older) and pediatric (birth to 18 years) populations. Ability to apply the dynamics of normal and deviant behavior relating to mental health functioning of individuals, families and groups of ages 0-18 years for pediatric 19-69 years for adult and over 70 years for geriatric populations based on assigned areas.
Knowledge of University and medical center organizations, policies, procedures and forms

Responsibilities

facilitate care along a continuum through effective resource coordination
assess the patient for transition needs including identifying and assessing patients at risk for readmission
Conducts complex psycho-social assessment and intervention to promote timely throughput, safe discharge and prevent avoidable readmissions
Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention and patient satisfaction
Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is the right sequence and at appropriate level of care
Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards and Tenet policy
Education provided to physicians, patients, families and caregivers
Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resource to Tenet performance standards.