Social Worker LMSW

Embark on a rewarding career with Abrazo West Campus hospital. If you are a compassionate healthcare professional eager to contribute to patient care, this is your opportunity where your skills make a difference every day. Join us in delivering exceptional healthcare with a personal touch.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance

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Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status.

• 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

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 for assessing 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 readmissions. 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.

• Knowledge of clinical social work practices and regulatory standards within a healthcare setting.
• Knowledge base of psycho-social assessment and intervention, continuum of care and case management methods and standards, excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Age-Specific Criteria, National Association of Social Work (NASW) Standards of Practice.

• Education:
  
  MSW
• MIDAS and Curaspan to be successfully completed within first 90 days

• Experience:
  
  Two (2) years acute hospital experience.
• Licensure/Certification: LCSW, Accredited Case Manager (ACM)

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