Medical Social Worker

TekWissen LLC

Fairfield, CA

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$61.64–$61.64

SKILLS

Cancer, Case Management, Cerner, Clinical Research, Communication Skills, Community Health, Cross-Functional, Customer Satisfaction, Detail Oriented, Discharge Plans, Diversity, Documentation, Fitness, Follow Through, Geriatrics, Healthcare, Hospital, Hospital Administration, Keyboards, Medical Records, Needs Assessment, Neonatology, Network Monitoring, Nonprofit, Nursing, Organizational Skills, Patient Assessment, Patient Care, Patient Education, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Primary Care, Project Tracking, Psychology, Quality Monitoring, Regulatory Compliance, Social Work, Systems Administration/Management, Treatment Plan, Word Processing, Workforce Management, Writing Skills

LOCATION

Fairfield, CA

POSTED

1 day ago

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a locally based, nonprofit healthcare organization. Their health system includes two hospitals, a 100-provider primary and specialty care medical group, a cancer center; and a new medical fitness center.

Job Title: Medical Social Worker

Location: Fairfield, CA 94533

Duration: 2 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

Duties:

Provides direct clinical social work service, counseling, discharge planning, and case management services to hospital patients and their families including assessment and documentation of emotional, social, financial, environmental or follow-up referral needs.
Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
Formulates a psychosocial plan of care related to assessment of patient's unique strengths and needs.
Develops a discharge plan for case load as designated by the team.
Monitors progress toward goals of care and identifies barriers to meeting estimated length of stay.
Facilitates integration with community-based resources to optimize patient health.
Activities are consistent with System mission and values and in compliance with applicable regulations and System policies and procedures.
Partners with the physicians, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team to establish, document, implement and evaluate a plan of care based on the patient's unique health strengths and needs.
Brings psychological assessment skills; acute, long term, and community health expertise; learning theory; and multidisciplinary team expertise to the interdisciplinary team.
Monitors progress of the plan of care and communicates any changes with the care team.
To the extent possible, provides integrated mind, body, spirit service to the patient and family through a mutually agreed upon plan of care and patient advocate relationship.
Supports System processes related to the health management of patients across the continuum of care, e.g. QI and/or clinical practice team membership, clinical research, quality monitoring, community networking.
Assesses needs of patients/families and conceptualizes problem situations within social work scope of service using appropriate age-related skills.
Provides direct social work services and counseling to patients and their families.
Interprets social, psychological, emotional, financial and family issues for attending physicians and other health care team members.
Completes documentation required in patient's medical record on department forms and reports, and in MIDAS+ and in Cerner.
Demonstrates continued enhancement of professional skills.
Complies with department and hospital policies and procedures.
Supports organization goals to provide the best/optimal care to our patients and families, and community to our highest customer satisfaction.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills:

Strong psychosocial assessment skills.
Strong critical thinking skills- must be capable of independent judgment, and have strong clinical decision-making skills.
Skilled at working with patients and families coping with loss and grief.
Excellent follow-through skills.Strong organizational skills with attention to detail required.
Must have working knowledge of motivational theories, system theories, developmental theories, and group dynamics.
Ability to work effectively with diverse populations, including those with respect to age, culture, ethnicity, and gender.
Basic proficiency with word processing required; basic proficiency with databases strongly preferred.
Must have strong written and oral communication skills.
The client Way is a set of value-based behaviors that are to be consistently demonstrated and role modeled by all employees that work at client Healthcare.
The client Way principles consist of Caring, Communication, Collaboration, and Competence.
Effective care-giving and advocacy skills for diverse clients- neonatal through geriatric- essential.
Ability to build and maintain constructive relationships with team members, external service providers, System managers, and department staff often within the context of competing interests essential.
Demonstrates respect for others perspectives.
Physical Effort: Some standing, walking, stooping, bending, twisting, periods of sitting and use of computer keyboard throughout the workday.
Transportation available to cover referrals when other hospital needs coverage.

Required Education:

Master of Social Work from a school of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
Licensure: Preferred but not required for this position.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.

COMPANY SIZE

100 to 499 employees

INDUSTRY

Computer/IT Services

FOUNDED

2009

WEBSITE

http://www.tekwissen.com/

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