Social Worker

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the health care team to assess and resolve social barriers for patients in the ambulatory care setting.
• Develops and implements a patient-centered plan of care to empower patients with chronic illnesses to improve health and self-management within the community.
• Affords patients with psychosocial barriers to health through effective assessment, goal setting, and motivational interviewing skills.
• Collaborates with inpatient Case Managers to promote safe and effective transitions to the next level of care.
• Develops effective relationships with patients, care teams, and community-based providers (home care, case managers, etc.) to promote continuity of care.
• Affords families and patients in crisis intervention and long-term care planning.
• Supports patients with accessing services such as, housing, security, legal, transportation, finances and public assistance.
• Follows documentation standards according to established workflows.
• Participates in continuous improvement activities.
• Enhances own professional development and maintains formal and informal continuing education for self-development.

Qualifications

• NJ License at time of hire
• LCSW or LSW
• Master's Degree- Social Work
• 1+ years' experience in a healthcare setting and/or experience with crisis intervention and supporting patients with psychosocial barriers to health
• Bi-lingual (Preferred)

Benefits

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.

Pay

$53,497.60 - $86,528.00/Annually based on 40 hours per week