Medical Social Worker

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Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centres, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bedteachinghospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as bestin the Columbia Metroarea by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000babies each year, performs more than 34,000surgeries annually and isthe region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center.

Its postgraduate medical education programmes include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Using interviewing, organisational and networking skills, gathers clinically relevant information and provides psychosocial assessment to assist the healthcare team in developing a treatment plan and determining services needed by patients/families. Actively collaborates with healthcare team to meet patient care outcome management and system improvement goals. Uses planning, prioritising and organisational skills to achieve utilisation and quality goals.

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from an accredited program
Minimum Years of

Experience:

None.
Substitutable

Education & Experience:

None.
Required Certifications/Licensure:
Licensure as a Social Worker in the state of South Carolina
Required Training:
None.

• The Medical Social Worker works in a cooperative manner, which fosters favourable relationships between employees and patients, patients’ families, visitors, fellow employees, the medical staff and outside facilities. Accepts chain of command, supervision and constructive criticism.
• Exhibits commitment and pride through person example.
• Contributes to teamwork and creates harmonious, effective and positive working relationships with others.
• Respects, understands and responds with sensitivity to employees and guests by treating others as one would wish to be treated.
• Resolves conflicts and problem solves.
• Exhibits telephone courtesy.
• Professionalism/Competence:
  Demonstrates competence in providing duties within role.
• Demonstrates competence to provide developmentally appropriate assessments and interventions for the infant, child, adolescent, adult and geriatric patient populations.
• Identifies the need for professional growth and seeks appropriate professional development opportunities attaining a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education annually in topics related to professional role.
• Serves as a role model for other healthcare team members.
• Respects patient confidentiality and uses discretion in all interactions regarding patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates receptiveness to change and flexibility in meeting department needs.
• Abides by the Social Work Code of Ethics.
• Utilises assessment data to facilitate appropriate and timely discharge plan/post acute services.
• Completes psychosocial/discharge assessments (appropriate to patient type) and reason for referral to assist the healthcare team in development of a care plan. Obtains basic information related to the diagnosis/treatment experiences, age, developmental stage, financial status, living environment, transportation, support systems, and family/significant others.
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