Social Worker Assistant

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Job Location (Full Address):

601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14642

Opening:

Worker Subtype:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Department:

500180 Social Work - Adult Services

Work Shift:

UR - Day (United States of America)

Range:

UR URCC 208 H

Compensation Range:

$24.22 - $33.91

The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job's compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.

Responsibilities:

GENERAL PURPOSE:
The Nursing Home Placement Coordinator provides a centralized resource for all Nursing Home referral and discharge activities. The BSW/BS role is essential for the communication and planning for post discharge care in a Nursing Home setting. Excellent communication with unit interdisciplinary teams and Nursing Home Admissions teams is critical to our hospital throughput.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide direct and indirect services to patients who are in need of placement in a post hospitalization after care facility. 
• Coordinate communication with nursing homes regarding patient care needs, financial profile and other components of the patient's application or admission. Provide placement consultation to Social Work staff, community facilities, community or hospital physicians, other health care professionals, and, when indicated, to patients and/or families.
• Maintain Social Work Division liaison relationships with area nursing facilities and insurers.
• Receive and review initial or updated information from SMH Social Workers intended for placement purposes, and transmit the information to appropriate community facilities.
• Negotiate with individual facilities.  Collaborate with Hospital interdisciplinary team, patient and family, as needed, to ensure optimum, timely placement of all patients.
• Problem solve on case specific or systems issues with Social Work Senior Director, leaders and individual Social Workers, or others as indicated.
• Facilitate the Placement Program’s inpatient throughput.
• Ensure the Program’s compliance with regulatory requirements & provide education to interdisciplinary team, patients & families.
• Collaborate with leadership to enhance the Program’s responsiveness to the Hospital’s bed availability needs.
• Maintain a high level of “customer satisfaction” with the Program among patients/families, staff, and nursing homes.
• Serve as Placement Specialist for all patient care units within the Hospital.
• Consultation and planning with unit Social Work staff to determine the optimal placement strategy.  Consultation may take place prior to patient referral and throughout the placement process.
• Initial case review and analysis of new placement referrals to prepare for transmittal.
• Transmittal of written referral information to nursing homes by ePartner/email/courier/fax.  Provision of information to Hospital Social Work staff regarding nursing home evaluation results and issues of concern.
• Documentation of patient information for entry into eRecord
• Coordination of daily nursing home bed availability
• Negotiation with nursing homes to secure beds.
• Participation in daily census review meetings and activities. 
• Consultation regarding facility selection or placement issues with unit Social Workers, patients and/or families to be discharged home to await placement.
• Consultation and education with unit social workers regarding complaints received from the nursing facility after admission.
• Coordinate OPWDD and mental health level II determinations required by NYS (except in Behavioral Health)
• NYS screen trained and complete screens for pediatric population requiring NH placement

Administrative

• Oversight of Program operations to determine the level of compliance with Division placement policies.
• Oversight of Program to ensure effective Program operations.
• Analysis of regulatory updates to project the impact on patient movement and dete