Medical Social Worker

Job Title: Medical Worker

Location: Fairfield, CA 94533

Duration: 03 Months to Long-Term

Schedule: 08:00 AM to 4:30 PM | 40 Hours/Week

Pay Rate: $40-45/hour

• Provides direct clinical social work service, counseling, discharge planning, and case management services to hospital patients and their families including assessment and documentation of emotional, social, financial, environmental or follow-up referral needs.
• Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Formulates a psychosocial plan of care related to assessment of patient’s unique strengths and needs.
• Develops a discharge plan for case load as designated by the team.
• Monitors progress toward goals of care and identifies barriers to meeting estimated length of stay.
• Facilitates integration with community-based resources to optimize patient health.
• Activities are consistent with System mission and values and in compliance with applicable regulations and System policies and procedures.
• Partners with the physicians, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team to establish, document, implement and evaluate a plan of care based on the patient’s unique health strengths and needs.
• Brings psychological assessment skills; acute, long term, and community health expertise; learning theory; and multidisciplinary team expertise to the interdisciplinary team.
• Monitors progress of the plan of care and communicates any changes with the care team.
• To the extent possible, provides integrated - mind, body, spirit - service to the patient and family through a mutually agreed upon plan of care and patient advocate relationship.
• Supports System processes related to the health management of patients across the continuum of care, e.g. QI and/or clinical practice team membership, clinical research, quality monitoring, community networking. Assesses needs of patients/families and conceptualizes problem situations within social work scope of service using appropriate age-related skills.
• Provides direct social work services and counseling to patients and their families.
• Interprets social, psychological, emotional, financial and family issues for attending physicians and other health care team members.
• Completes documentation required in patient’s medical record on department forms and reports, and in MIDAS+ and in Cerner.
• Demonstrates continued enhancement of professional skills.
• Complies with department and hospital policies and procedures.
• Supports organization goals to provide the best/optimal care to our patients and families, and community to our highest customer satisfaction.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Master of Social Work from a school of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
• Licensure preferred but not required for this position.
• ASW or higher license required, LCSW preferred.
• Acute care experience required.