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About The Position

Requirements

• Direct clinical social work service
• Counseling
• Discharge planning
• Case management services to hospital patients and their families
• Biopsychosocial assessment and documentation of emotional, psychological, social, financial, environmental or follow-up referral needs
• Ability to initiate and discontinue 5150 custodial holds WITHIN NorthBay Medical Center and VacaValley Emergency Rooms, and inpatient units
• Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary healthcare staff
• Manages the psychosocially complex patient across the continuum of care
• Completing a clinical bio-psychosocial assessment
• Formulating a plan of care related to assessment of patient’s unique strengths and needs
• Developing a discharge plan
• Monitoring patient’s progress toward the goals of care
• Identifying barriers to meeting estimated length of stay
• Facilitates integration with community-based resources to optimize patient health
• Collaboration with community partners to optimize patient health
• Communicates appropriate information to care providers in the continuum of care
• Documents assessment and interventions in patient’s medical record
• Activities are consistent with System mission and values and in compliance with applicable regulations and System policies and procedures
• Demonstrates NorthBay Health’s True North Values: Nurture Care, Own It, Respect Relationships, Build Trust, and Hardwire Excellence.

Nice To Haves

• For California Children’s Services (CCS) identified patients, oversight of aspects of discharge planning will be performed by a CCS paneled MSW/LCSW in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team including nursing, attending, and the Case Management department.

Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive psychosocial evaluations, collecting pertinent information including presenting problems, history of present illness, medical history, psychosocial history, and mental status evaluation and diagnosis.
• Ability to initiate or discontinue 5150 custodial holds within NorthBay Medical Center and VacaValley Emergency Rooms, and inpatient units.
• Partners with physicians, nurses, and other team members to establish, document, implement, and evaluate a plan of care based on the patient’s unique health strengths and needs.
• Brings clinical assessment skills, acute, long-term, and community health expertise, learning theory, and multidisciplinary team expertise to the interdisciplinary team.
• Monitors progress of the plan of care and communicates any changes with the care team.
• Develops a discharge plan for caseload as designated by the team, including arranging for placement, home care, and community resources.
• Manages the psychosocially complex patient and their family across the continuum of care.
• Provides integrated – mind, body, spirit – service to the patient and family through a mutually agreed upon plan of care and patient advocate relationship.
• Supports System processes related to the health management of patients across the continuum of care, e.g., QI and/or clinical practice team membership, clinical research, quality monitoring, community networking.
• Assesses/reassesses needs of patients/families and conceptualizes problem situations within the social work scope of service using appropriate age-related skills.
• Develops and maintains a collaborative relationship with Solano County Behavioral Health (County Hospital Liaison; Psychiatric Emergency Team).
• Assists with the coordination and placement of 5150 patients utilizing Solano County Behavioral Health resources and/or All-Access Transfer Center resources.
• Provides direct clinical social work services and counseling to patients and their families.
• Interprets social, psychological, emotional, financial, and family issues for attending physicians and other healthcare team members.
• Completes documentation required in the patient’s medical record on department forms and in Cerner.
• Develops and provides in-services as requested.
• Functions as a community liaison as assigned, working with Solano County Behavioral Health and related resources to help meet patient needs.
• Identifies and applies knowledge of legal mandates such as scope of practice, privileged communication, confidentiality, reporting requirements, professional conduct, and other mandates.
• Demonstrates continued enhancement of clinical professional skills.
• Complies with department and hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates commitment to quality of service.
• Supports organization goals to provide the best/optimal care to patients and families, and community to achieve the highest customer satisfaction.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• life coverage
• disability coverage
• long-term care coverage
• paid time off
• vacation
• sick leave
• holidays
• bereavement
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
• education reimbursement for eligible roles
• professional development and training programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• wellness programs
• recognition programs
• shift differentials
• market-based compensation review and increases subject to approval and organizational performance