Inpatient Medical Social Worker

Responsibilities

• Conducts complete assessments, establishes appropriate plans, and initiates interventions within desired timeframes.
• Collaborates and negotiates effectively with patient, family, and team while striving to achieve patient and organizational goals with regard to patient’s care needs, choice and satisfaction when discharge planning/transitioning care.
• Utilizes patient/family strengths in the problem-solving process, involving the patient/family and team in the decision-making process beginning on admission and continuing throughout patient’s hospital stay.
• Provides social work services to patients, families, and individuals including psychosocial assessment, screening, determination of needs evaluation, appropriate interventions and follow up, and discharge planning.
• Implements interventions substantiated by assessment as appropriate to the needs of the patient/client system and consistent with available resources and payer network.
• Participates as part of the multi-disciplinary health care team to develop safe and timely coordination of care including but not limited to post-acute placement, palliative/hospice service lines, medical equipment, home healthcare, outpatient follow up, mental health resources, and other community resources.
• Advocates for patient involvement in the plan of care.
• Initiates and