SOCIAL WORKER - SWR-ONCOLOGY SERVICES

Union Health•TERRE HAUTE, IN

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About The Position

The Social Worker is part of the Oncology Services team and provides support to patients and families by coordinating care and serving as a liaison with the hospital. The role collaborates with providers, interdisciplinary care teams, and community agencies to assess patient needs and help coordinate physical, financial, and psychosocial care. The Social Worker supports complex discharge planning, maintains timely and accurate documentation, advocates for patients’ rights, and helps ensure appropriate use of resources. The position also contributes to professional development and may supervise social work students as requested.

Requirements

Strong communication skills, including excellent verbal and written skills.
Solid knowledge of clinical social work and the scope of Indiana state laws.
Five years of clinical experience within the last seven years.
Ability to understand growth and development across the lifespan and identify age-specific patient needs.

Nice To Haves

Social Worker certification by the State of Indiana is preferred.
Experience in Case Management is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Acts as a liaison among patients, families, and the hospital.
Collaborates with providers, interdisciplinary care teams across the health system, and community agencies as applicable.
Reviews medical records and interviews patients and/or families to assess and investigate needs and respond accordingly.
Helps coordinate plans of care addressing physical, financial, and psychosocial needs.
Supports the Care Manager with patients’ complex discharge needs.
Helps coordinate complex care needs related to women’s and children’s services, including adoption and guardianship.
Demonstrates understanding of patients’ and families’ physical and emotional needs.
Completes tasks needed to meet plan-of-care goals, including arranging transportation, assisting with financial assistance, making community-resource referrals, collaborating with agencies such as APS and CPS, and assisting with advance directives as applicable.
Coordinates with the Care Manager when interventions may need to be modified or adjusted.
Communicates and collaborates with the outpatient Care Team when patients transition out of the hospital, if applicable.
Participates in Care Coordination Rounds and Inter-professional Rounds daily, if applicable.
Maintains knowledge of relevant community agencies, institutions, and other resources.
Maintains knowledge of value-based programs to promote appropriate use of payer and patient resources and high-quality, cost-effective care.
Balances workload and uses time effectively to support timely, smooth care transitions.
Uses varied communication methods and assesses their effectiveness.
Maintains accurate, concise, and timely documentation in the medical record and other department record-keeping systems.
Advocates for patients’ rights and supports people of diverse backgrounds.
Supervises social work students as requested by the department.
Takes responsibility for professional growth and development and seeks learning opportunities through in-service training, continuing education, self-study, and demonstration.
Applies knowledge of growth and development across the lifespan and assesses and interprets information to identify age-specific patient needs.
Builds positive, collaborative relationships with healthcare team members.
Demonstrates initiative, adaptability, dependability, and effective communication.