Social Worker BSW PRN Job Webster area,Texas USA,Healthcare

Social Worker BSW PRN

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Social Worker (BSW) is responsible for promoting patient-centered care by evaluating psychosocial needs and providing community service coordination for identified patient populations. As a member of a multidisciplinary health team, the BSW acts as a liaison between the patient and community resources/post-acute care providers. The BSW creates and facilitates the timely implementation of discharge plans and arranges post-acute interventions identified in the plan of care.

The BSW facilitates patient movement across the continuum of care. The scope of this role includes primarily Med/Surg units.

What you will do in this role:

Work collaboratively with RN case managers, acute care nurses, physicians, insurance companies, and other staff members to proactively identify and address patient needs.

Identify and address barriers to discharge and recovery. These barriers include financial, emotional, psychosocial, medical, and spiritual.

Perform thorough assessments and develop appropriate discharge plans for high-risk patients with discharge planning or psychosocial needs.

Obtain input from the RN case manager to ensure the discharge plan is appropriate and aligns with the patient care plan. Reassess and modify the patient discharge plan as needed, in conjunction with the clinical team.

Participate in the interdisciplinary care planning process and perform proactive discharge planning.

Provide education to patients and caregivers regarding community resources and post-acute level of care criteria, benefits, and coverage.

Coordinate and facilitate meetings between the care team and patients/families/caregivers. Assist patients and families in making difficult decisions while honoring their preferences and values.

What qualifications you will need:

Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker (LBSW)
Bachelors Degree

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake is a 530+ bed hospital where sophisticated, world-class medicine meets the comfort, care and convenience of a community hospital. For more than 40 years, we have proudly been providing high quality, cost-effective, comprehensive healthcare to the Houston Bay Area. We opened our doors in 1972 and now employ 2,000+ staff members and 900+ physicians in a wide range of specialties.

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