Social Work Case Manager 2, Palliative Care - WKBH, $10000 Bonus, FT, 8A-4:30P
About The Position
Baptist Health is seeking a Social Work Case Manager 2 for Palliative Care. This role involves intervening with patients and families facing psychosocial needs related to chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include consultation, discharge planning, education, counseling, advocacy, and information referral to address emotional, social, and financial aspects of care. The position also involves crisis intervention, coordinating discharge plans, and serving as a liaison between patients and community resources. The case manager will identify psychosocial and environmental needs, collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop and implement discharge plans, make referrals, provide support, counseling, and crisis intervention, and offer bereavement services. Additionally, the role requires assessing and intervening in cases of child, adult, elder abuse/neglect, and domestic violence. This position serves all patient groups from neonatal through adults.
Requirements
- Masters degree.
- Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern.
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
- 3 years of hospital SWR experience, with 2 years post Masters experience, and active Register Clinical Social Work Intern license, and be eligible to sit for LCSW exam at the time of entry into the SWR 2 position.
- Employee must sign a BHSF Contract for Certification/Licensure which stipulates that employee will obtain LCSW within 12 months from date of promotion to Social Work Case Manager 2.
- Demonstrate ability to solve problems in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical, data management and computer skills.
- Current working knowledge of discharge planning, crisis intervention, complex case management and performance improvement preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of community services available for insured and non-insured patients.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components.
- Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple high-risk, complex patients.
- Ability to work with multiple members of a care team and maintain positive working relationships.
- Minimum Required Experience: 3 Years
Nice To Haves
- Current working knowledge of discharge planning, crisis intervention, complex case management and performance improvement preferred.
Responsibilities
- Intervenes with patients/families with psychosocial needs and need assistance, support in coping with chronic acute terminal illness.
- Provides consultation, discharge planning, education, counseling, advocacy, info referral services to assist patients to meet emotional, social and financial aspects of care.
- Provides crisis intervention to patients/families with psychosocial needs and coordinates facilitates discharge plan.
- Provides patient care services via case finding, patient/family referrals, referrals from physicians, RN Case Mgrs, Nurses, members of the healthcare team.
- Serves as an expert, acts as a liaison between patients, co resources.
- Identify patent/family psycho-social environmental needs related to admission, diagnosis, treatment, discharge.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team and develops/implements a comprehensive discharge.
- Makes appropriate referrals to co services, provides support, counseling, crisis intervention, bereavement services.
- Assess and intervenes with child, adult, elder abuse/neglect and domestic violence.
- Serves all patient groups: neonatal through adults.
Benefits
- Sign-On Bonus: Up to $10,000
- Career growth and development opportunities, with clear pathways and ongoing support
- Comprehensive health and wellness resources that go beyond traditional benefits
- A wellness program that can help employees eliminate their medical plan deductible, reducing out-of-pocket healthcare costs
- Tuition reimbursement to support continued learning and advancement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
