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Overview: div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"strongYou Matter Here!/strong/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;" /divdivspan style="font-size: 10pt;"Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter! /span/divdivdiv /divp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"strongHours: Per Diem, Days, No weekends or Holidays/strong/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"strongJob Summary:/strong/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"Responsible for conducting High Risk Screening/Heath Related Social Needs Assessment on all patients assigned; for those who screen in complete an assessment of those needs and provides information and referral services, assist with discharge planning efforts assuring the continuity of care is provided as they transition from hospitalization to next level of care. Is knowledgeable of community services and resources available to provide services to our patients and families. Is available to assist the patient, the patient’s family and other persons significant to the patient with the issues which may develop as a result of illness and hospitalization and services patients of all ages guided by the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards {CLAS}. Is aware of how Race, Ethnic, Languages, Disability, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Health Related Social Needs may affect care and address those areas of opportunity within the care planning and post discharge process with the multidisciplinary team. May also complete high risk discharge post discharge follow up; Flexibility and adaptability to change is essential./span/p/div Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"strongEssential Functions:/strong/pullispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Provides Case Management Services upon admission through discharge including but not limited to dc planning –engaging client in process ; services may include but are not limited to: housing, primary care; transportation resources, legal services, outpatient therapy med management follow up other social service supports/resources; addresses barriers to treatment or discharge and applications for program assistance./span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"Completes documentation using the documentation standards noted by department policies and procedures, as well as, state and federal regulations./span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"Works collaboratively with staff on cases and other members of the multidisciplinary team as needed./span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Keeps updated community resources to share with clients; provides update to Director for Community Resource Directory Access and for distribution to clients as needed./span/span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Completes a statistical record of each case closed, noting recorded hours, contacts made and services provided so that department documentation and statistics can be completed./span/span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Keeps abreast of department policies and procedures, as well as, state and federal regulation guidelines, (i.e. JCAHO,  DPH, etc.) to ensure compliance with department policies and procedures, as well as, state and federal regulations./span/span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Completes Utilization Review activities and other duties as assigned by Director./span/span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Provides information and education to patients and their families regarding the discharge planning  as part of their specific care needs and works closely with members of the multidisciplinary team including, physicians, patients, families, staff,  community agencies including but not limited to LTC Mass Health Applications for SNF placement timely and efficiently with patient, family and/or significant others./span/span/strong/span/lilispan style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"strongspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Covers department as needed in various capacities within their own scope of service./span/span/strong/span/lilip style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Informs patients of their patient rights when indicated (i.e. discharge planning, guardianship, court commitments,/span/pp style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"admission/hospitalization, Power of Attorney, etc.)./span/p/li/uldiv id="ctl00_CPH_lstExpectationsTypes_ctrl3_lstExpectations_ctrl21_divExpectation"span style="font-size: 10pt;"strongStatement of Other Duties:/strong/span/divdiv /divdivspan id="ctl00_CPH_lstExpectationsTypes_ctrl3_lstExpectations_ctrl21_lblStandards" style="font-size: 10pt;"This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described./span/divdiv /divdivp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"strongFunctional Demands/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"Physical Requirements:/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.  Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction), and handles (seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or working with hands)./span/p/divp style="margin: 0px;" /p Qualifications: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"strongJob Requirements/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"Minimum Education/span/pullispan style="font-size: 10pt;"Associates Degree required, Bachelor's Degree preferred, in Social Work or related field. /span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"spanMinimum Work Experience/span/span/pullispan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Minimum one to three years experience in Social Service/Human Service capacity in a hospital, rehab /treatment facility, Skilled Nursing Facility, or community social,health, behavioral health or addictions agency/facility. /span/lilispan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Addiction Recovery experience a plus./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"spanMinimum Licenses and Certifications/span/span/pullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"State licensure preferred LCSW, LSW, or LSWA. /span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10pt;"spanRequired Skills/span/span/pullispan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Works well with others, organized and efficiency essential./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Works closely with social service staff , updating resources, networking with agencies. Ability to work independently and with a team. /span/lilispan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Excellent verbal and written communication skills required./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Ability to work with community agencies to mobilize resources is required. /span/lilispan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"Flexibility is a must./span/li/ul

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Estimated Pay $29 per hour
Hours Part-time
Location Gardner, Massachusetts
Posting ID: 1099668242 Posted: 2025-07-16 Job Title: Social Service Care Coordinator