Social Worker II-MSW - Main Campus - Full Time - Days

Job Description

Provide comprehensive psychosocial services to patients and families at The Christ Hospital by assessing needs and developing individualized discharge plans to ensure continuity of care. This role includes delivering psychosocial interventions, advocating for patients, and connecting them with appropriate community resources.

Assess patients' evolving medical situation from a psychosocial framework, including functional status, goals of care, and community support needs as it relates to discharge planning

Assess family structure, dynamics, and decision-making preferences, including identification of a surrogate decision maker if needed

Assess patient/family environmental risk factors, patient/family/community support systems, age-related/developmental issues, financial barriers, health literacy, chemical dependency/mental health, Social Determinants of Health needs, and any risk of abuse/neglect/financial exploitation/intimate partner violence

Assess for risk of readmission, putting into place a coordinated plan for outpatient follow up

Documents in Discharge Planning progress notes a clear, concise, objective psychosocial assessment, treatment plan, and progress of social work intervention and outcomes in compliance with regulatory standards and department standards for timeliness.

Documents appropriately in the Social Work module for data tracking purposes

Develop a plan of intervention, which is integrated with the interdisciplinary treatment team to establish continuum of care in congruence with ethical and legal considerations.

Implements plan of care:

• Provide psychosocial counseling and other therapeutic interventions for patient/family
• Provide crisis management for patient/family
• Facilitate healthcare decision making and resolution of discharge planning issues
• Provide psychosocial intervention for: neglect/abuse/intimate partner violence/human trafficking; adjustment to illness; bereavement and mental health; substance abuse; non-compliance, and other psychosocial barriers to diagnosis and treatment
• Mandated reporting to local/state agencies as required by law – Adult Protective/Child Protective Services, law enforcement
• Maximize health status and minimize length of stay and appropriate utilization of hospital resources
• Provide referral and linkage to health care and community resources based upon Social Determinants of Health screening needs
• Facilitate extended care facility placement and hospital to hospital transfer
• Facilitate home care, hospice care, and durable medical equipment arrangements
• Advocate, mediate and negotiate a cohesive plan for maintaining or improving social supports and patient safety
• Coordinate patient's discharge plan with outpatient counterparts – TCHMA SW, insurance case managers, community mental health/substance abuse case managers – to aid in readmission prevention

Attend unit specific Inter-Disciplinary Rounds daily

Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to enhance quality of care and efficiency.

Maintain a positive working relationship with healthcare team and community agencies and services.

Provide extensive education to patient/family in areas of insurance benefits, and capacity of community resources to meet patient needs

Participate in interdisciplinary patient care rounds, case conferences and family conferences for purpose of appropriate length of stay discharge planning.

Assist interdisciplinary team in understanding significant social and emotional factors related to illness.

Identify barriers in service delivery systems and advocate for change.

Provide education to interdisciplinary team, residents, students, other disciplines and community agencies

Evaluate patient outcomes and participate in process improvement.

Provide leadership and perform delegated management responsibilities.

Provide clinical supervision to peers, Bachelor degree staff, and students.

Provide mandatory and/or voluntary cross coverage when needed.

Participate in orientation of new staff.

Generate and support ideas to improve Social Work Department service delivery systems.

Identify complex clinical cases and seek supervision when appropriate

Exceptional skill…