Social Worker MSW

Conifer Health Solutions • Goodyear, AZ

13d

About The Position

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 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

• Master's of Social Work
• 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

• 2 years of acute hospital experience
• Accredited Case Manager (ACM)

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
• Career Level: Mid Level