Social Worker - Chesapeake Regional Healthcare
Chesapeake, VA 23320
About the Job
The Social Worker conducts searches for placement facilities and provides options for Care Managers to support patient discharge/transition. Serves as a knowledge resource to interpret/negotiate with state, and federal agencies around the placement request process.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
These duties and responsibilities described below represent the general tasks performed on a daily basis; other tasks may be assigned.
- Demonstrates the knowledge base required to effectively perform the job.
- Demonstrates the ability to interpret, analyze and apply relevant data to determine a course of action.
- Demonstrates effectiveness in communication/collaboration with culturally and professionally appropriate interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrates effective time management required to carry out job responsibilities in a timely manner.
- Maintains accurate and complete clinical documentation according to hospital policy and professional standards.
- Applies principles of crisis intervention and counseling as a resource to patients and families.
- Meets all annual organizational requirements, establish professional and personal goals.
- Demonstrates effective customer services behaviors as defined by hospital mission, vision and values.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and strives to meet departmental/hospital dashboards
- Works in close collaboration with physicians and other health care personnel in patient evaluation and treatment to further their understanding of significant social and emotional factors underlying patient's health problem.
- Helps patient and family through individual or group conferences to understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations
- Provides service planned to restore patient to optimum social and health adjustment within patient's capacity
- Utilizes community resources to assist patient to resume life in community or to learn to live within limits of disability.
- Attend required hospital-wide orientations, meetings, and in-services
- Demonstrate a commitment to flexible work scheduling when necessary to ensure patient care
Other Job Responsibilities/Expectations include:
- Counsels patients and family regarding social and financial consequences of illness, disability and mobilizing family and community resource.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with outside resource and serves as a community resource to others.
- Assists with Home Health and DME as needed.
- Assess psychosocial factors and provides for intervention with families and patients.
- Counsels patient and family using crisis intervention techniques and provides community service referrals.
- Reports cases of abuse and neglect to APS and CPS.
- Serves as consultant regarding issues with guardianship, abuse, neglect, POA, healthcare surrogate, Medicare and Medicaid guidelines.
- Coordinates referrals to inpatient or outpatient mental health agencies.
- Assist in obtaining or renewing TDO's as directed by MD or plan or care.
- Attends LOS meetings and contributes to planning and review of patients presented.
- Coordinates family conferences as needed.
- Completes Medicaid Screenings for Virginia and North Carolina (UAI) on all eligible patients for nursing home placement.
- Discharge planning activities on off hours or as delegated by the Lead Care Manager or Director.
- Coordinates and facilitates referrals to homeless shelters, Meals on Wheels, adult day care, assisted living or other community resources to ensure safe effective discharge.
Education and Experience
Minimum Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Psychology, or Social Work is required.
Preferred Education: MSW preferred.
Experience: minimum of 3 years of social work experience in a hospital or healthcare setting preferred.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
CM certification strongly desirable.
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