Senior Specialist Medical Social Work/Social Services/Sharp Memorial/Full-Time/Days

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

8 AM

Shift End Time:

4:30 PM

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$64.960 - $83.820 - $102.680

 

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices. 

 

What You Will Do
The Sr. Specialist Medical Social Work (SW) leads advanced psychosocial and social drivers of health (SDoH) clinical interventions and care planning to achieve safe and sustainable care transitions for Sharp patients considered the most complex and/or vulnerable as assigned. In addition, this position serves as a resource for other medical social workers and members of the interdisciplinary care team (IDT). The Sr. Specialist Medical Social Work is the clinical champion and works in close coordination with the Manager of Social Work, site leadership and System ICM Support Services. The Sr. Specialist will consult on and may assume ownership of escalated cases as determined by site ICM Leadership. This role will mentor and provide oversight for social work MSW students and provide support to SW's seeking LCSW licensure. This position acts as a subject matter expert on complex care assessment and planning that extend beyond standard practice, considering all extraordinary medical, behavioral, psychosocial as well as any social drivers of health concurrently intersecting with the index need. The Sr. Specialist Medical Social Work takes a principle role in identifying education gaps and needs and partners with the System ICM Clinical Educators to create, implement and monitor for education adherence and sustainment. This position may be assigned projects to drive and monitor change to ensure departmental key performance metrics are met. The Sr. Specialist will aid in department operations, including but not limited to, new team member orientation, education support, report development, data collection and scheduling. The Sr. Specialist is a key member of the site Utilization Management Committee.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Social Work.
• 3 Years acute care or clinical experience in area of specialty.
• California BBS Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - CA Board of Behavioral Sciences -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Accredited Case Manager (ACM) - American Case Management Association (ACMA) -PREFERRED
• Certified Case Manager (CCM) - Commission for Case Manager Certification -PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements

• Accredited Case Manager (ACM) - American Case Management Association (ACMA) OR Certified Case Manager (CCM) - Commission for Case Manager Certification - Required within 1 years of hire. Department will track and maintain this certification.

Essential Functions

• Collaboration and Teamwork
  Provides Sr. Specialist SW support for ICM programs, initiatives, and community partnerships.
  Demonstrate team behaviors with a commitment to quality.
  Develop/foster peer relationships that promote efficient integrated departmental operations.
  Demonstrated ability to multi-task and drive change within the ICM Division at the site level.
  Ability to take vision from the System ICM leadership team and translate that vision into practical and manageable SW workflows with a focus on consistency and standardization.
  Key resource to assist with and assume as indicated complex cases to support site LOS goals.
• Communication
  Actively contributes to the ICM Leadership team by bringing creative thinking and innovation to assist in enhancing overall patient care and operational efficiencies.
  Advanced communication skills as demonstrated by abilities to:
  1. Act as a subject matter expert and resource for the social work team and other members of the IDT.
  2. Develop quick and sustainable rapport with complex patients.
  3. Bring together often diverse internal and external conflicting stakeholders to a common consensus and care plan.
  4. Identify, partner in the development of and implement programs to address educational gaps.
  Establish effective working relationships between internal and external customers with a fo