Medical Social Worker (Part-Time)

Boys Town • Omaha, NE

2d • Onsite

About The Position

In a career as a Medical Social Worker, you join us in providing life-changing care to patients from across the region. In this role, you will address financial and social concerns impacting care of Boys Town National Research Hospital and Clinic patients.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work required.
• Certification, Licensure, or Provisional Licensure as a Social Worker in the State of NE required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates care for the patient through referral to appropriate resources in the community or within the Boys Town system.
• Provides leadership in the identification and acquisition of resources (local, state, and federal) for patients and their families.
• Coordinates activities/follow-up to meet identified needs of select patients to facilitate necessary care, specialty consultation and/or surgery.
• Serves as a resource for BTNRH physicians, nurses and staff.
• Participates in multi-disciplinary teams as requested.
• Maintains complete, accurate, and timely documents of completed work, patient files and office files.
• Complies with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Maintains working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact patient care.
• Participates in quality improvement activities through staff meetings, committees, continuing educational and professional activities.
• Participates in Utilization Review Committee and activities.
• Assumes the duties of the discharge planning coordinator.
• Will provide oversight of the discharge planning process.
• A daily review of the active patient discharge plans will be completed as needed.
• Reassess the discharge planning process on an on-going basis (i.e., at least quarterly), review discharge plans in closed medical record review to determine staff responsiveness to the patient’s post-discharge needs and review re-admissions for trends.

Benefits

• Reduced to no cost visits for services performed by a Boys Town provider at a Boys Town location for employees and their dependents enrolled in medical benefits.
• Low to zero-dollar co-pays on certain maintenance drugs through pharmacy benefits.
• No cost mental health visits to an in-network provider.
• Generous match on their 401K or 401K Roth account.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Parenting resources from experts.
• Professional development opportunities within the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level