Job Description

Social Worker III FT Days at Saint Vincent Hospital summary:

The Social Worker III at Saint Vincent Hospital facilitates patient care through effective resource coordination, ensuring optimal health outcomes and appropriate use of healthcare services. This role involves complex psychosocial assessments, discharge planning, readmission prevention, and education of patients, families, and healthcare staff. The position requires a Master's in Social Work, relevant licensure, and experience in acute hospital or behavioral health settings.

Up to $20,000 Sign-on Bonus Based on Eligibility

Saint Vincent Hospital offers a whole new experience in health care. By combining our advanced, state-of-the-art facility with our commitment to providing the best quality of life to the many members of our Worcester community. Saint Vincent Hospital excels at offering the best care in a friendly atmosphere. From our advanced heart and vascular services, to our comprehensive orthopedics and rehabilitation programs, our robust surgical facility including our Da Vinci robotic surgery and Cyberknife technology, to our comfortable and compassionate women & infants programs - you don't have to travel far for high-quality health care: We're right here, in the heart of Worcester.

Onboarding Process: Please be advised that candidates must successfully complete a background check and pre-employment health screening which includes a drug screen.

Position Summary:

The Social Worker is responsible to facilitate care along a continuum through effective resource coordination to help patients achieve optimal health, access to care, and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient’s resources and right to self-determination. The individual in this position has overall responsibility for to assess the patient for transition needs including identifying and assessing patients at risk for readmission. Conducts complex psycho-social assessment and intervention to promote timely throughput, safe discharge, and prevent avoidable readmissions. This position integrates national standards for case management scope of services including: Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention, and patient satisfaction; Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is the right sequence and at appropriate level of care; Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards, and Tenet policy; Education provided to physicians, patients, families, and caregivers; and Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resource to Tenet performance standards.

Responsibilities

Coordination of complex discharge planning. Educates and mentors new social work staff. Acts as resource to all staff members regarding policies and procedures as well as community resources. Works to trend barriers to care as resolve at least one barrier to care.

Qualifications:

Education:

Required: Master's of Social Work

Experience:

Preferred: 1 years of acute hospital experience and/or 1 year experience in outpatient behavioral health setting

Certifications:

Required: LiCSW or LMHC. Must be currently licensed, certified or registered to practice profession as required by law or regulation in state of practice or policy.
Preferred:

Tenet complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

Keywords:

social work, care coordination, discharge planning, readmission prevention, patient advocacy, psycho-social assessment, hospital social worker, behavioral health, healthcare resource management, patient education

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