Social Worker, Community Health

Social Worker

The Social Worker is primarily responsible for assessing the psycho/social needs of patients/families/caregivers, educating patients, families, and Millennium employees in understanding what type of community resources are available and coordinating with the appropriate resources to assist the patient. Resources include but are not limited to food, shelter, utilities, pharmaceutical financial needs. S/he must exhibit strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as the ability to utilize both internal and external resources to accomplish the goals and objectives.

This position is Remote / Hybrid in the Tampa Bay / Sarasota area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Determines nature of patient's situation by interviewing, assessing the medical, psychological, emotional and social information to assist with patient needs;
• Research, and gather information regarding community resources, including pharmaceutical resources for patients needing assistance in paying for copayments;
• Assist with patient placement to Skilled Nursing Facilities;
• Support Millennium's employees in the coordination of the community resources to effective support the patient's care plan; and
• Meet with community resources within the designated area to build relationships to assist patients in obtaining those resources;
• Maintains client confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential;
• Travel required, in home assessments of Social Determinants of Health, assist patients with completing applications.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Analysis/Problem Assessment – Securing relevant information and identifying key issues and relationships from a base of information; relating and comparing data from different sources; identifying cause-effect relationships.

Compassion
- The responsibility to put a patient's or person's interests first, including the duty not to harm, deliver proper care, and maintain confidentiality.

Compliance
- Employee has satisfactory completed employers required compliance training. Employee is able to demonstrate an understanding of employers Code of Conduct.

Communication
- Expressing ideas effectively in individual and group situations (including nonverbal communication); adjusting language or terminology to the characteristics and needs of the audience. Good listening skills.

Dependability
- Meets commitments, deliverables, deadlines, work independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, and meets attendance/punctuality requirements.

Individual Leadership/ Influencing
- Using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to inspire and guide individuals (fellow employees) toward goal achievement; modifying behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved.

Innovation
- Generating creative solutions to work situations; trying different and novel ways to deal with organizational problems and opportunities.

Integrity
- Maintaining and promoting social, ethical, and organizational norms is conducting internal and external business activities.

Judgment/ Problem Solving
- Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, and communicates decisions to others.

Maximizing Performance
- Establishing performance/development goals, coaching performance, providing training, and evaluating performance.

Organizational Awareness
- Having and using knowledge of systems, situations, procedures, and culture…