Social Worker

Job Description

Job Description

CORE VALUE COMMITMENT:

In common mission, our teams work together with our patients at the center. We strive to continuously improve. We value one another’s diversity of talent, experience, and perspective. We each contribute to something bigger than ourselves while promoting integrity, belonging, and collaboration.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Social Worker is responsible for developing and maintaining community contacts; utilizing available community resources to meet patients’ individual needs. This role develops working relationships with patients, families and staff for further understanding of significant social and emotional needs underlying patient's health problem.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Assist the physician and other members of the care management team in understanding significant social, economic, spiritual, and emotional factors related to the patient's health problems to establish a plan of care that fosters the personal worth, spiritual well-being, and human dignity of each patient.
• Develop effective, working relationships with patients, families and staff for further understanding of significant social and emotional needs underlying patient's health problem.
• Develop and maintains community contacts, utilizing available community resources to meet patients’ individual needs.
• Assesses the social, spiritual, and emotional needs/factors to estimate the patient's and family's capacity and potential to cope with the problems of daily living.
• Participates in the development and review of the plan of care for assigned patients.
• Observe, records, and reports social, spiritual, and emotional changes and provide guidance and coping strategies to patients and families.
• Documents all services in the patients’ clinical record.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of patient care standards and practices.
• Knowledge of the community resources available for patients and the requirements needed to access those resources.
• Knowledge of HIPAA privacy rules.
• Skill in communicating in a professional manner, both verbally and in writing.
• Skill in planning, organizing, and time management.
• Skill in using a computer and a variety of software, including Electronic Health Records (EHR) software, Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook.
• Skill in managing multiple priorities and problem solving.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet established goals and objectives.
• Ability to maintain high levels of professional and personal integrity.
• Ability to convey professional demeanor and sound judgment in dealing with patients’ care, protection of patient privacy, and confidentiality.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to act as a good representative of the company.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Master of Social Work (MSW) required. A minimum of three (3) years of experience in a healthcare setting utilizing a team approach to patient care required. Provisional Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (PLMHP) or Licensed Mental Mealth practitioner (LMHP) preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL EFFORT:

• This role operates in a healthcare setting. This position requires frequent sitting and computer work and allows employee to vary physical position or activity for comfort.
• Must be able to:
• Stand 10% or longer of an 8-hour workday.
• Walk 10% or longer of an 8-hour workday.
• Sit 80% of an 8-hour workday.
• Requires ability to lift up to 10 pounds occasionally.
• Requires employee to: bend, squat, kneel, and reach above shoulder level occasionally and twist occasionally.
• Requires repetitive use of hands for: simple grasping, fine manipulation, computer use.
• Requires all sensory skills (speech, vision, smell, touch, and hearing) corrected to near normal range.

NOTE: The information above is a reflection of the general nature of job duties. From time to time, additional duties may be assigned.