Social Worker - MSW - FT - Days - JDCH

Memorial Healthcare

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Social Worker is a key member of the interdisciplinary team who provides and oversees the provision of psychosocial care for selected patients and families. Conducts bio-psychosocial assessments, provides intervention and treatment as indicated. Identifies high‑risk psychosocial factors of patients/families that impact health status and helps staff understand the influence of those factors upon the course of medical care. Collaborates with and provides social work consultation to other disciplines within the healthcare setting and the community.

Requirements

Masters: Social Work (Required)
A minimum of one (1) year of social work experience in a health care setting.
Must display a high level of flexibility, adaptability and organizational skills.
Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Must be able to prioritize and organize time and functions.
Must communicate effectively and respectfully with patients, families, and all levels of staff and management.
Required to provide conscientious commitment to assigned work, work schedule, honesty, teamwork, assisting others to bring about positive outcomes.
Must be able to recognize and manages risks, resolve issues and problems as soon as they arise, report and document adverse events and reportable conditions.
Must demonstrate the ability to provide social work services to patient, family members and significant others in four areas: 1) psychological functioning, 2) adaptation to illness, injury, disability or life event, 3) psychosocial assessment/evaluation and 4) facilitation services such as referral community agencies financial planning, and provision of information and resource knowledge.
Required to identify and intervene for suspected abuse including sensitivity to age specific concerns; physical/emotional/sexual abuse of children and adolescents; domestic abuse for adults; and caretaker/institutional abuse for senior adults.
Must be able to manage crisis situations, demonstrating ability to quickly appraise the crisis situation and select appropriate intervention.
Able to document direct service in patient’s medical record after each significant encounter.
Must demonstrate proficiency in use of the electronic medical record.
Must be able to demonstrate good problem-solving skills, root-cause analysis, and principles of clinical performance improvement.

Responsibilities

Responsible for identification and referral for specialized services, such as drug and alcohol treatment, legal services, financial and employment counseling, and housing support.
Provides assessment and intervention in domestic violence and child abuse situations.
Participates in case reviews to evaluate case management and progress.
Consults with healthcare team members to promote, monitor, and evaluate compliance with patient's treatment plan.
Develops comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessments responsive to age appropriate and cultural needs and concerns.
Employs a range of clinical interventions such as adjustment to illness counseling, crisis intervention, care coordination, and information and referral and safety planning.
Advocates on behalf of patients and families to gain access to services and resources.
Provides assistance with entitlements, medications, transportation, and advance directives.
Performs all aspects of psychosocial discharge planning for chronic conditions and/or long-term custodial care needs for inpatient discharge, community services, outpatient care and any other applicable setting.
Supports the department's initiatives, mission and goals and may take on additional responsibilities at the discretion of leadership.
Provides psychosocial support and interventions, particularly for individuals with chronic and/or complex medical and behavioral health conditions.
Assesses patient/family learning needs, styles and readiness.
Educates patients/families based on treatment plan, identifies barriers to care, diversity issues and learning styles.
Responsible for outreach and coordination with other community resources and agencies, and community-level advocacy on behalf of patients and families.
Responds to requests for assistance with Social Determinants of Health and advocates for support in the community.
Refers to and collaborates with Memorial Healthcare System SDOH Hub.
Supports patients with mental health needs during the episode of care, discharge planning to both inpatient and outpatient mental health providers as applicable to the patients' healthcare setting.

Benefits

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Memorial Healthcare System is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity.
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We are proud to offer Veteran’s Preference to former military, reservists and military spouses (including widows and widowers).
Employment is subject to post offer, pre-placement assessment, including drug testing.
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Memorial Healthcare System provides preference as part of our commitment to honoring the service and sacrifice of veterans in alignment with state regulations.
Veteran's Preference allows for the first choice in interviewing, hiring, retention, and promotion after deployment when all other applicant qualifications are equal.
However, Veteran's Preference does not guarantee a job.
We are proud to offer preference to internal and external applicants who identify within these categories: veterans, disabled veterans, spouse of a disabled veteran, unremarried veteran widow/widower, certain family members, active reservists and members of the National Guard.
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