Inpatient Social Work, Care Transitions, 40 Hours

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Inpatient Social Work, Care Transitions Lahey Hospital and Medical Center is now offering up to a $3,500 signing bonus. You will receive your first payment (half of the total amount) of upon completion of payment upon completion of six (6) months and your second payment (half of the total amount) the bonus payment (final of the total amount) owed upon completion of one year following your start date. This will be paid on the next regular pay day following the date on which you become eligible for the bonus. All payments are subject to applicable taxes.
Provides counseling, support, crisis intervention and other social work services to patients and their families. Provides clinical intervention for individual, family and groups.  Assists patients through advocacy procedures.  Adheres to and promotes the Lahey Clinic Guiding Principles.

Job Description:

Provides counseling, support, crisis intervention and other social work services to patients and their families. Provides clinical intervention for individual, family and groups.  Assists patients through advocacy procedures.  Adheres to and promotes the Lahey Clinic Guiding Principles.

Assessment and Planning:

As a member of the interdisciplinary care team, identifies high-risk psychosocial factors of patients/families that impact status and discharge planning.

• Educates the care team on the impact of social drivers of health (SDOH) on medical treatment and care planning.
• Develops a psychosocial assessment, and intervention plan regarding identified patient and family needs utilizing all available sources of information.
• Participates in inter-disciplinary and inter-agency collaborative efforts to identify and coordinate care, treatment and post-acute care needs.
• Psychosocial assessment includes social, economic, cultural, age-related, and behavioral factors.
• Demonstrates competency in knowledge of community resources to address identified needs.
• Provides crisis intervention and counseling services to assist patients and families with their emotional needs and adjustment to the medical episode.
• Documents assessments, intervention plans, and outcomes that are consistent with departmental guidelines and Hospital policies.
• Provides accurate, timely, and appropriate documentation of all social work assessments and interventions in the electronic medical record per regulatory policies and procedures (this says the same thing as the bullet above.  We can eliminate the bullet above.)
• Assesses and screens patients for interpersonal violence (child, adult, elder).  Provides education and facilitates reporting by interdisciplinary team members per hospital policies.
•  Provides education and facilitates reporting by interdisciplinary team members with direct knowledge of patient condition and events of concern.
• Screen and identify SDOH risk factors that contribute to readmission, such as inability to access medications, lack of transportation, insurance status, etc.

Care Coordination/Care Transitions
As a member of the Care Transitions, the inpatient social worker collaborates with care providers and third-party payors to ensure that all appropriate services and resources are utilized in a timely and efficient manner.

• Actively participates in multidisciplinary rounds (MDRs) and care conferences on assigned units and assists with documenting all pertinent information in the medical record.
• Establish her/himself as an integral part of the team and present each day in the units to which they are assigned.
• Maintains timely communications with third-party payor representatives to identify discharge needs and available resources.
• Seeks out members of the treating team to identify the most efficient/effective plan to progress care and offers to assist with the identification of resources to facilitate the plan of care.
• Provides patient/support system education and resources regarding options for care and completes relevant referrals to health agencies, mental health facilities, counseling services, social agencies, post-acute care providers, and disease or condition-specific resources in an effective and timely manner based on the patient condition/needs to minimize delays in patient receipt of services.
• Demonstrates expertise in facilitating end-of-life discussions and issues, including goals of care, hospice, and palliative care.
• Demonstrates expertise in addressing advance directives, power of attorney, health care representative, and guardianship issues and serves as a resource to the interdisciplinary health care team consulting with Legal as needed.
• Maintains work