Social Work MSW Care Mgmt Diem

Position Overview

The Social Worker MSW Care Management Diem position at Capital Health is responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and intervening with patients and their families to provide social work services. The role involves collaborating with the healthcare team to facilitate discharge planning and ensuring patients have access to appropriate resources.

Minimum Requirements

• Master's degree in Social Work (MSW)
• One year experience in a clinical setting performing clinical social work preferred

Special Training

• Clinical training in a medical/clinical environment
• Knowledge of spreadsheet and word processing software
• Case management and patient information systems

Essential Functions

• Documents clinical record, comprehensive assessment of patient needs, clinical interventions, and appropriate referrals
• Affords culturally competent skills to assess individual patient needs and refer to appropriate professional staff
• Identifies barriers and plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcome as evidenced by treatment plan
• Collaborates, educates, and assists health care team to identify social and financial barriers that delay appropriate transitions
• Documents staff interventions in clinical record, counsels staff and patient/family on conflict management, and monitors reaction and need for ongoing intervention
• Completes mental health /psych assessments when appropriate
• Advocates for appropriate services for all patients with payor and providers of post-acute care service, community service, and other services in order to optimize patient outcome
• Participates in staff development and performance improvement program activities
• Attends and participates in regular departmental performance programs, staff meetings, and hospital wide committees
• May perform follow up service as needed to measure clinical outcomes
• Implements support groups for specified disease processes or bio-psycho-social issues to assist community outreach and development

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Frequent physical demands include: Standing, Walking, Carrying objects, Keyboard use/repetitive motion
• Occasional physical demands include: Sitting, Climbing (e.g., stairs or ladders), Push/Pull, Twisting, Bending, Reaching forward, Reaching overhead, Squat/kneel/crawl, Wrist position deviation, Pinching/fine motor activities
• Continuous physical demands include: Lifting Floor to Waist 15 lbs., Lifting Waist Level and Above 10 lbs.

Usual Work Day

8 Hours

Reporting Relationships

No

Usual Work Schedule

Weekend commitments required

Usual Work Location

Office setting

Usual Work Environment

• Accurate Near Vision
• Accurate Far Vision
• Color Discrimination
• Minimal Depth Perception
• Accurate Hearing

Usual Work Conditions

• Anticipated Occupational Exposure Risks Include the following: Bloodborne Pathogens, Airborne Communicable Disease

Benefits

• Retirement Savings and Investment Plan
• Disability Benefits – Short Term Disability (STD)
• Sick Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program