HOSPITAL SOCIAL WORKER - Full-time

Min: USD $25.72/Hr. Max: USD $39.86/Hr. Overview: p style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Join Memorial Health and make a real difference in the lives of patients and their families. As a Hospital Social Worker (LSW) with an MSW degree, you'll play a critical role in addressing complex psychosocial factors that affect health outcomes, contributing to holistic, patient-centered care./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"strongWhat We Offer:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Sign-On Bonus to welcome you to our team!/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"40 Hours of Front-Loaded PTO/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Flexible time off and remote on-call options, with minimal need to return to the hospital./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"strongKey Responsibilities:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments to inform healthcare decisions./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Address social determinants of health to prevent readmissions and adverse outcomes./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Develop interventions that consider the full psychosocial impact of illness or hospitalization./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Collaborate with the healthcare team to remove barriers to post-acute care./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Facilitate timely referrals to community resources and promote patient self-reliance./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions by addressing social needs and avoiding "social admissions."/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Bring your LSW license and MSW degree to a dynamic team and help improve patient outcomes through compassionate, proactive care./span/p Qualifications: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emEducation:/em/span/pullispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Master’s degree of Social Work from a School of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.  /span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emLicensure/Certification/Registry:/em/span/pullip style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emLicensure/Certification/Registry:/em/span/pspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Illinois Licensed Social Worker (for Advanced Care Management, required within six months of hire date) required. /span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emExperience:/em/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Experience working with adults across the life span presenting with chronic or serious illness/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Experience identifying and coordinating the needs of chronically ill patients and families as well as supporting the care team/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Understanding of psychosocial implications of illness, hospice and/or home care death and dying issues. /span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Knowledge of local community resources./span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Knowledge and understanding of individual development and human behavior as it relates to the effects of illness and of the influence of culture on healthcare/span/li/ul Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Biopsychosocial Assessment/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Utilizing specialized knowledge and experience, make assessment of patients’ psychosocial needs, home situation and economic constraints/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Psychiatry assessments must be completed within 3 working days of patient’s admission and include regulatory mandated information./span/li/ulp style="margin-left: .75in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Community Resources/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Serve as liaison between patients/ families and community agencies/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Coordinate information and referrals for financial and community resources to link patients/families to the appropriate resources./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Serve as resource to clinical team, patients and families regarding entitlement to programs and support services/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Develop strong working relationships with internal and external healthcare organizations and community resources./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Work with patients to formulate an individualized plan to obtain medication, particularly, in light of Medicare coverage limitations including the facilitation of enrollment in various drug companies’ patient assistance programs when warranted/span/li/ulp style="margin-left: .75in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Care Delivery/span/pullispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Work closely and collaboratively with the clinical care team across sites of care/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Assist the team with care delivery by scheduling appointments, arranging interpreters, assisting with the completion of forms, ensuring that patients can access services, and arranging transportation to and from medical appointments as needed/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Participate in clinic office visits, team rounds, or family conferences with when needed based on site of care/span/li/ulp style="margin: 12.0pt 0in .0001pt .75in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Care Transitions/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Coordinate patient care with other disciplines involved in the plan of care and maintain appropriate documentation /span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Confer with the patient, family, and clinical team to obtain information to coordinate efficient and quality patient care./span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Build relationships with primary care providers, skilled nursing facilities, and the community to promote continuity of care/span/li/ulp style="margin-left: .75in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Embody the Memorial Health Performance Excellence Standards of Safety, Courtesy, Quality, and Efficiency that support our mission, vision and values:/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Support/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Provide crisis intervention and supportive counseling for patients and their families as needed/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Serve as patient advocate, assisting with navigation of patient eligible resources and programs/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Provide patients and families with support and information to overcome personal and environmental difficulties which pre-dispose toward illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assist patients to effectively utilize available resources to meet their personal health needs and help them develop their own capabilities/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Evaluate patients’ ability to independently manage self and locate alternative resources when limitations are identified /span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Advance Care Planning/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Maintains a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact patient care, e.g., advance directives, power of attorney, and guardianships./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Counseling/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"When requested, provide group, individual, and family counseling to patients and their families as requested /span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Discharge Planning/span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Initiate discharge planning when patient is admitted. /span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assure that discharge plans are secured when patient is medically ready for discharge/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assure that all necessary information has been transmitted to next provider of care. /span/li/ulp style="margin-left: .75in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Record documentation for all social work activities in the electronic medical record in a timely and thorough manner./span/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Psychiatry colleagues must document in record after each session and supports information needed for Utilization Review criteria and the patient treatment plan./span/li/ulp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Adhere to department productivity standards./span/pp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Participate in the monitoring of quality and utilization metrics and participates in improvement efforts to refine the delivery of care to maximize clinical, quality, and fiscal outcomes./span/pp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assists, as needed, in the staff training, new employee orientation, student education, community education, in-house activities, and general public relations activities./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Refer to ancillary teams when warranted./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Aware of and comply with department and hospital policy and procedures./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Demonstrates knowledge of care for older adults through accurate assessments, treatment and effective implementation of interventions./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Adhere to the NASW Code of Ethics./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Comply with the Illinois Mental Health Code and Confidentiality Act./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Participate in continuing education and in-service training to support professional growth and expertise./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Perform other related duties as assigned./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"emThe intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job.  Incumbents may be requested to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description./em/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"em /em/span/p