Social Worker II Fulltime Days

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Social Worker II Case Management FT Days Position Summary

The Social Worker is responsible for facilitating care along a continuum through effective resource coordination to help patients achieve optimal health, access to care and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient’s resources and right to self-determination. The individual in this position has overall responsibility for assessing the patient for transition including identifying and assessing patients at risk for re-admission. You will also conduct complex psycho-social assessment and intervention to promote timely and safe discharge and prevent avoidable re-admissions.

This position integrates national standards for case management scope of services including:            

• Transition management: promoting appropriate length of stay, re-admission prevention and patient satisfaction
• Care coordination by demonstrating quality and efficiency while assuring the appropriate level of care is at the right sequence.
• Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards and Tenet policy
• Education provided to physicians, patients, families and caregivers
• Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resource to Tenet performance standards.

Responsibilities
This individual’s responsibility will include the following activities
Complex, psycho-social transition planning assessment and reassessment and intervention
Assistance with adoptions, abuse, and neglect cases, including assessment, intervention and referral as appropriate to local, state and /or federal agencies
Care coordination and implementation or oversight of implementation of the transition plan
Leading and/or facilitating multi-disciplinary patient care conferences including Complex Case Review
Making appropriate referrals to other departments
Communicating with patients and families about the plan of care
Collaborating with physicians, office staff and ancillary departments
Assuring patient education is completed to support post-acute needs
Timely complete and concise documentation in Case Management system,
Maintenance of accurate patient demographic and insurance information
Precepts new staff members and acts as a resource to all staff
Facilitates TEMPO as needed
Participates in department quality improvement initiatives
Other duties as assigned.

THE SOCIAL WORKER II CASE MGMT FT DAYS CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION, LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS, AND EXPERIENCE.

EDUCATION
Required:  MSW based on license requirements of the state in which the Tenet Hospital operates
Preferred:  Accredited Case Manager (ACM)

WORK EXPERIENCE
Preferred:  Over 2 years recent acute health care experience. Behavioral health experience

Skills 
Required:  Leadership; communication and teaching; organizational; interpersonal; team building and collaboration; psychosocial assessment; interviewing; documentation; identification of potential risk situations or potential liability.

Knowledge
Required:  Quality improvement process, related health care practices and standards; knowledge and competency in providing care for patients in neonatal, and/or pediatric, and/or adolescent, and/or adult, and/or geriatric age groups; current practices, issues, regulations involved in transitions planning; psychosocial aspects of disease and health care; professional and regulatory standards.

Technology
Required: Basic computer skills, personal technology to