Continuing Care Liaison MSW

Continuing Care Liaison MSW

Full time - Days

Why work as an Continuing Care Liaison – MSW at the Dartmouth Health Home Care
?

• You experience satisfying and challenging work that makes a difference, every day.
• You really get to know your patients and become an integral part of their care team.
• You are provided broad independence but are also part of a cohesive interdisciplinary team.
• You get to be an important part of the community where you live.
• You have a work/life balance that can match the flexibility you need.

Benefits include:

• Employee Referral Bonuses
• Clinical CEUs
• Online Linked In Learning
• Generous paid time off and holidays
• Extensive health, dental, and lifestyle benefits that come with being part of the renowned Dartmouth Health system

Locations:

• Upper Valley (Surrounding areas)

Dartmouth Health Home Care covers more than 70 towns delivering superior nursing, rehabilitation, hospice, and personal care services with proven effectiveness, integrity, and compassion. Our only goal is to help the people in our communities. When you join the Dartmouth Health Home Care, you’ll become part of a dedicated team delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

We would love to meet you and tell you more about this engaging and fulfilling part of our healthcare delivery system. Our Hiring Managers can explain the different roles, our service area, the unique aspects of home and hospice care, and the many benefits we can offer your career and personal life.

As a Continuing Care Liaison - MSW, you will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary health care team that provides continuity of care in transitioning complex care patients from the acute care setting to home. This role partners with acute care setting interdisciplinary team in identifying patient/family needs and developing the plan of care to successfully transition home and continues to follow the patient, working with home-based care interdisciplinary team to ensure health outcomes are met and patient/family success at home.

• As an integral member of a multi-disciplinary health care team that provides skilled nursing, rehabilitative care and medical social work to patients, allowing them to receive the medical care required in the comfort of their own home.
• Accurately document observations, interventions and evaluations pertaining to patient care management and services.
• Works with discharge planners and referring providers to identify high risk patients and ensure a seamless transition to DHHC services.
• Provides information and education to prospective patients and families on home-based care services; performs a comprehensive patient/family assessment and in collaboration with the patient, family and care partners, develops a plan of care for transitioning the patient from the acute care center to home; provides continuing support and coordination for patient/family following transition home.
• Utilizes innovative strategies to advocate for patient needs and negotiates complex systems to remove barriers and limitations in transitioning patient’s home.
• Monitors the patient’s transition across and within care settings (e.g., home, clinic, skilled nursing facility, rehabilitation, hospital, etc.).
• Shares assessment and physical, psychological, social and environmental care plan data with patient/family consent as the patient moves through different care settings.
• Identifies gaps in the care continuum and work with the community and provider networks to expand access to needed physical, psychological, social and environmental services.
• Participates in the development, maintenance, and coordination of an interdisciplinary care delivery system specific to individual patient…