Medical Social Worker Hospital

Responsibilities: Provides direct clinical social work service, counseling, discharge planning, and case management services to hospital patients and their families including assessment and documentation of emotional, social, financial, environmental or follow-up referral needs. Ability to build and maintain constructive relationships with team members, external service providers, System managers, and department staff – often within the context of competing interests – essential.

Our client, a Healthcare company, is looking for a Medical Social Worker - Hospital for their Fairfield, CA location.
 
Responsibilities:

• Provides direct clinical social work service, counseling, discharge planning, and case management services to hospital patients and their families including assessment and documentation of emotional, social, financial, environmental or follow-up referral needs. 
• Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.  Formulates a psychosocial plan of care related to assessment of patient’s unique strengths and needs. 
• Develops a discharge plan for case load as designated by the team.
• Monitors progress toward goals of care and identifies barriers to meeting estimated length of stay. 
• Facilitates integration with community-based resources to optimize patient health. 
• Activities are consistent with System mission and values and in compliance with applicable regulations and System policies and procedures.
• Partners with the physicians, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team to establish, document, implement and evaluate a plan of care based on the patient’s unique health strengths and needs.
• Brings psychological 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.
• To the extent possible, 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 needs of patients/families and conceptualizes problem situations within social work scope of service using appropriate age-related skills.
• Provides direct social work services and counseling to patients and their families.
• Interprets social, psychological, emotional, financial and family issues for attending physicians and other health care team members.
• Completes documentation required in patient’s medical record on department forms and reports, and in MIDAS+ and in Cerner.
• Demonstrates continued enhancement of professional skills.
• Complies with department and hospital policies and procedures.
• Supports organization goals to provide the best/optimal care to our patients and families, and community to our highest customer satisfaction. Performs other duties as assigned.

 
Requirements:

• Strong psychosocial assessment skills. Strong critical thinking skills
• Must be capable of independent judgment, and have strong clinical decision-making skills.
• Skilled at working with patients and families coping with loss and grief.
• Excellent follow-through skills.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail required. 
• Must have working knowledge of motivational theories, system theories, developmental theories, and group dynamics. 
• Ability to work effectively with diverse populations, including those with respect to age, culture, ethnicity, and gender. 
• Basic proficiency with word processing required; basic proficiency with databases strongly preferred. 
• Must have strong written and oral communication skills.
• The client Way is a set of value-based behaviors that are to be consistently demonstrated and role modeled by all employees that work at client.
• The client Way principles consist of Caring, Communication, Collaboration, and Competence. 
• Effective care-giving and advocacy skills for diverse clients- neonatal through geriatric- essential. 
• Ability to build and maintain constructive relationships with team members, external service providers, System managers, and department staff – often within the context of competing interests – essential.
• Demonstrates respect for others perspectives.
• Master of Social Work from a school of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
• Preferred but not required for this position.
• ASW or higher license required, LCSW preferred
• Acute care experience required
• Could be Northbay or Vacavalley hospitals based on daily need.
• Languages: English     Read   Write   Speak
• Skills:  Discharge Planning

 
Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities