Medical Social Worker

Responsibilities

• 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.

• Strong psychosocial assessment skills.
• Strong critical thinking skills- must be capable of independent judgment, and have strong clinical decision-making skills.
• Skilled at working with patients and families coping with loss and grief. Excellent follow-through skills.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail required.
• Must have working knowledge of motivational theories, system theories, developmental theories, and group dynamics.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse populations, including those with respect to age, culture, ethnicity, and gender.
• Basic proficiency with word processing required; basic proficiency with databases strongly preferred.
• Must have strong written and oral communication skills.
• The Client is a set of value-based behaviors that are to be consistently demonstrated and role modeled by all employees that work at Client.
• The Client principles consist of Caring, Communication, Collaboration, and Competence.
• Effective care-giving and advocacy skills for diverse clients- neonatal through geriatric- essential.
• Ability to build and maintain constructive relationships with team members, external service providers, System managers, and department staff – often within the context of competing interests – essential. Demonstrates respect for others perspectives.
• Master of Social Work from a school of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
• ASW or higher license required, LCSW preferred
• Acute care experience required

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities

As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or express, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.