Medical Social Worker

Position: Medical Social Worker, 40hrs, Days
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** Exemption Status:
** Exempt
* * Hiring Range:**$60,923.20 - $
** Schedule Details:
** Monday through Friday
** Scheduled

Hours:

** 8:30am-5:00pm
** Shift:
** 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)
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* Hours:

** 40
* * Cost Center:
** 24030 - 4404 Discharge Planning This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.# #
** Everyone Is a Caregiver
** At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other.

And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

The Medical Social Worker is a licensed social work professional who is responsible for the delivery of clinical social work services to meet the medically related psychosocial needs of patients and families served by the hospital, in a manner reflective of the department's philosophy and objectives. Provides consultation to hospital and medical personnel related to biopsychosocial issues, continuity of care and discharge planning functions.$5,000

Sign-on Bonus

I. Major Responsibilities:  
1. Conducts intake interviews with patients and families to develop psychosocial evaluations.  
2. Participates in team planning of treatment during initial interview and coordinates team meeting on a daily basis.  
3. Provides psycho-social assessments and treatments, individual and group education/therapy to include dual diagnosis cases and all associated social work services.  
4. Serves as a primary clinician for individual therapy, couples and family therapy.  
5. Works with outpatient providers to coordinate treatment planning.  
6. Documents all information obtained in evaluation, assessment, consultation, referral and disposition to comply with regulatory requirements, as well as ensuring best possible patient outcome.
7. Coordinates discharge planning which includes the assessment of housing, benefits and treatment needs.  Plays key role in case management.  
8. Acts as liaison with community and government agencies and develop referral network as directed.

II. Position

Qualifications:

License/Certification/

Education:

Required:

1. Masters degree in Social Work.
2. Current Massachusetts Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) licensure.

Experience/

Skills:

Required:

1. One to three years of social work experience  
2. Demonstrated ability in psychosocial assessment, knowledge of community resources, crisis intervention skills, ability in discharge planning, and ability to work with a multidisciplinary team.
3. Data compilation and analysis skills.
4. Excellent written and communications skills.
5. Basic computer skills.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are:
Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender,…