Social Worker LMSW - Lutheran Hospital of Indiana

Job Summary:

• Under the direction of Case Management, serves as a coordinator of an interdisciplinary approach to guide patients through the continuum of care with special focus on discharge planning, psychosocial needs assessment, care/resource management, and provider/insurance issues.
• Collaborates with the physicians, patients, and their family members and others to facilitate the achievement of desired outcomes, address ongoing needs, maximize patient, family and provider satisfaction, optimize systems/resource utilization, facilitate timely discharge, assure appropriate length of stay, reduce unnecessary delays and other adverse variances to the delivery of services.

Minimal Acceptable Job Qualifications

Education:

• Master's degree in Social Work or a Human Services Field.

Experience:

• Minimum of one to two years of clinical social work experience in a hospital or health care setting which may have included the appropriate supervision or internship.

Licenses/Certificates:

• Licensed Mastered Prepared Social Worker - LMSW

 

Equal Opportunity Employer