Medical Social Worker

StateJobsNY • $70K — $108K *
Albany, NY 12203In-Person
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
2 months ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • New York State Licensure (LMSW) required
  • Master of Social Work degree from an accredited school
  • Minimum one year of experience in Clinical Social Work and care transitions
  • Strong ability to foster collaborative relationships
  • Knowledge of healthcare regulations and performance improvement
  • Excellent organization, communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Familiarity with health care law related to acute care and post-acute services

Responsibilities

  • Develop safe and timely Discharge Plans in collaboration with case managers
  • Conduct family meetings to facilitate comfort and decision-making
  • Obtain financial resources and manage legal aspects like guardianship
  • Lead Care Coordination Rounds to streamline team efforts
  • Resolve conflicts within teams to present a unified message
  • Address diversity issues and adapt practices accordingly
  • Collaborate with various departments to address potential risks
  • Perform comprehensive psychosocial assessments of patients and families
  • Provide crisis intervention and patient care advocacy
  • Educate patients and families about care options and community resources

Benefits

  • Access to continuing education and professional development opportunities
  • Supportive work environment focused on optimal patient outcomes
  • Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team
  • Opportunities for flexible role modifications as needed
  • Engagement in community resources to enhance patient support
Full Job Description

Department/Unit:

Care Management/Social Work

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$70,068.00 - $108,605.00

Create optimal outcomes for the patient and family by managing complex psychosocial and economic co-morbidities. Through advanced practice skills, mobilizes resources to reduce risk, and serves as ambassador between hospital and community.

Job Description:

  • Works with the Case Manager and the treatment team to develop a safe and timely Discharge Plan A and B that complies with regulations and laws regarding patient and family wishes
  • Identifies the need for and conducts family meetings that result in comfort, decisions, and other important outcomes
  • Serves as the lead in obtaining charity and financial resources, legal guardianship, adoptions, psychiatric referrals, and competency determinations.
  • Leads or co-leads Care Coordination Rounds
  • Help create function and productivity on the many teams to which the SW belongs, facilitating the resolution of conflict to present a united message to patients and families
  • Acknowledge issues of diversity and adjust practice accordingly
  • Works with people and agencies in the community to improve responsiveness, capabilities, alignment, and evaluation of services to patients and families
  • Collaborate with Risk Management, Patient Relations, Utilization Management, and Quality Management about potential problems and preclude outcomes detrimental to AMC
  • Base individual practice patterns on a sound knowledge base of social work principles and methodologies, social work policies, and the NASW Code of Ethics
  • Demonstrate flexibility in providing department coverage as needed, including possible modification of role, responsibilities, and assigned caseload
  • Completes initial screen of patients and families and a comprehensive psychosocial assessment of patients
  • Assists patients and families in understanding their illness and treatments options, as well as consequences to various treatments or refusal of treatment
  • Assists patients and families in communicating with treatment team
  • Provides crisis intervention
  • Advocates for patient care and timely discharge plan
  • Coordinates patient discharge and continuity of care planning
  • Educates hospital staff on patient psychosocial needs
  • Educates patients and families on levels of care; acute, sub-acute, community services and resources

Minimum Qualifications:

  • New York State Licensure (LMSW) required
  • Master of Social Work degree from an accredited school of Social Work Program
  • One year as graduate student or as a social worker with experience in the field of Clinical Social Work with experience in care transitions.
  • Ability to create collegial and collaborative relationships internally and externally.
  • Knowledge of accreditation standards, health care regulations, performance improvement and patient safety.
  • Effective organization, oral and written communication skills, problem solving, program development and computer skills.
  • Knowledge of health care law and regulations related to acute care and the immediate post-acute continuum
  • Ability to complete a psychosocial assessment, risk factor analysis, treatment planning, and models of intervention

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