Social Worker III - Med/Surg - 50% - 100%

UIOWA•Iowa City, IA

4h•Onsite

About The Position

The University of Iowa Health Care department of Care Coordination is seeking a Social Worker III to provide direct social work services including assessment, treatment, interventions, and recommendations to facilitate movement through the continuum of care to Ambulatory patients and their families. This role will also participate in and provide the social work perspective to interdisciplinary activities, as well as provide social work treatment, individually or in groups, to patients and clients and their families with complex emotional or social problems. Additionally, this position assumes basic consultation, supervisory, teaching, research, program development, and/or administrative responsibilities. The department intends to hire either a Social Worker II or a Social Worker III. Duties include developing and implementing a plan of care responsive to patient/family concerns, health care status, available resources, age-specific problems, and clinical impressions. Identifying patients requiring social work intervention through case finding, performing social work assessments with patient and/or family involvement, developing clinical impressions, and rating the severity of problems for planned interventions. Providing a range of social work services responsive to identified problems such as help with psychosocial functioning, adaptation to illness, facilitating services, protective services, and post-hospital planning. Providing information, consultation, and professional support to interdisciplinary team members regarding psychosocial issues and their impact, informing team members of social work treatment goals, patient status, and progress, and collaborating with the team regarding service provision. Acting as a resource for the team by participating in patient care rounds and team conferences, and advocating for the social work role with health care team members. Using social work knowledge and understanding of human behavior to remedy team-related issues and help team members evaluate and enhance team functioning. Developing and facilitating groups for patients and/or significant others as appropriate, identifying goals and structure for group work services, providing therapy, educational, and/or support group services reflecting diagnosis and age-related issues, and evaluating the effectiveness of groups and revising as necessary. Contributing to strengthening the social work profession by participating in local, regional, state, or national social work or health care related groups, and contributing to the development, strengthening, and delivery of needed health and social services. Participating in departmental and unit-based activities. University of Iowa Healthcare is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center, recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States. Their mission is 'Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.'

Requirements

Master’s degree with a major concentration in social work
6 months-1 year of clinical social work experience
A license to practice social work in Iowa
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Some familiarity with social work undergraduate education
Social work experience in a health care setting with the appropriate patient population and their families.
Experience with identifying and navigating financial resources, including insurance coverage options, changes related to the federal and state health programs, and the disability process.
Experience working with community resources, home healthcare, nursing facilities and other options available for patients in outpatient settings
Experience in a fast paced, high volume work environment
Care coordination experience or case management skills in a health care setting as part of an interdisciplinary team including experience utilizing an electronic medical record to assist with management of non-adherence, post-care follow-up and referrals to appropriate resources.

Responsibilities

Develops and implements plan of care, responsive to patient/family concerns, health care status, available resources, age specific problems, and clinical impressions.
Identifies patients requiring social work intervention through use of case finding.
Performs social work assessments with patient and/or family involvement.
Develops clinical impressions and rates severity of problems for planned interventions.
Provides range of social work services responsive to identified problems (e.g., help with psychosocial functioning, help with adaptation to illness, facilitating services, protective services, post hospital planning, etc.).
Provides information, consultation and professional support to interdisciplinary team members.
Provides information to team members regarding psychosocial issues and their impact.
Informs team members of social work treatment goals and patient status and progress and collaborates with team regarding service provision.
Acts as resource for team (e.g., participates in patient care rounds, team conferences, etc.)
Advocates for the social work role with health care team members.
Uses body of social work knowledge & understanding of human behavior to remedy team-related issues and help team members evaluate and enhance team functioning.
Develops and facilitates groups for patients and/or significant others as appropriate.
Identifies goals and structure for group work services.
Provides therapy, educational, and/or support group services reflecting diagnosis and age related issues.
Evaluates effectiveness of group and revises as necessary.
Contributes to strengthening the social work profession.
Participates in local, regional, state or national social work or health care related groups.
Contributes to the development, strengthening and delivery of needed health and social services.
Participates in departmental and unit-based activities.