Social Worker MSW- IRF

Conifer Health Solutions • Goodyear, AZ

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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 read admissions. 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

• Education: Master's of Social Work
• Certifications: Must be an Arizona licensed social worker (LMSW) completed within 90 days of hire.
• MIDAS and Curaspan to be successfully completed within first 90 days is also a required course(s)/training.

Nice To Haves

• Experience: 2 years of acute hospital experience
• Certifications: Accredited Case Manager (ACM)
• #LI-CB4

Responsibilities

• Complex psycho-social transition planning assessment and reassessment and intervention
• Assistance with adoptions, abuse and neglect cases, including assessment, intervention and referral as appropriate to local, state and /or federal agencies
• Care coordination
• Implementation or oversight of implementation of the transition plan
• Leading and/or facilitating multi-disciplinary patient care conferences including Complex Case Review
• Other related job tasks or responsibilities as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees