Medical Social Worker II

Munson Healthcare•Traverse City, MI

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About The Position

More Than Just Care, It’s Community Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties. If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country. Invested in You Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance. Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling. Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges. Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings A Day in the Life Provides social work services including short-term individual counseling, community resource planning and crisis intervention counseling, community resource planning and crisis intervention. Assesses of the client’s psychosocial status, emotional factors related to illness, environmental resources and obstacles to maintaining safety, the patient/family psychosocial status and response to psychosocial interventions, family dynamics and communication patterns, potential for risk of suicide and/or abuse or neglect. Participates in effective interdisciplinary care coordination, identification of problems, development of a plan of care, adherence to the plan of care and discharge planning. Identifies and utilizes appropriate community resources and assesses patient/family ability to access them. Evaluates patient/family response to interventions when referred to community agency and satisfaction of the services provided. Records in a timely manner evaluation data, progress notes, and interventions including client and family’s response to interventions in the electronic medical record.

Requirements

Master's degree in Social Work from the Council on Social Work Education.
Current Michigan License as a Master’s Social Worker required.
2 years of clinical or family work experience.

Nice To Haves

Home care or hospice experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides social work services including short-term individual counseling, community resource planning and crisis intervention.
Assesses of the client’s psychosocial status, emotional factors related to illness, environmental resources and obstacles to maintaining safety, the patient/family psychosocial status and response to psychosocial interventions, family dynamics and communication patterns, potential for risk of suicide and/or abuse or neglect.
Participates in effective interdisciplinary care coordination, identification of problems, development of a plan of care, adherence to the plan of care and discharge planning.
Identifies and utilizes appropriate community resources and assesses patient/family ability to access them.
Evaluates patient/family response to interventions when referred to community agency and satisfaction of the services provided.
Records in a timely manner evaluation data, progress notes, and interventions including client and family’s response to interventions in the electronic medical record.