About the Job
Job Summary: MedStar Health is looking for a Social Worker MSW to join our team! As a Social Worker MSW, you will assess, plan, and coordinate services and resources for patients and families to meet needs and/or provide for timely discharge. Join one of the largest healthcare systems in the Baltimore-Washington metro region, also recognized as one of the "Healthiest Maryland Businesses". Apply today and learn how MedStar Health can be your next great career move!
Primary Duties:
• Collaborates with and completes referrals to appropriate community agencies for assistance based on patient need. • Initiates referrals in a timely manner. • Uses responses to help patients resume life in the community and/or adjust to lifestyle changes. • Communicates daily with direct caregivers and case management triad regarding patient and family responses to plan of care, identification of problems, discharge planning, and payor concerns such as LOS. • Identifies delays in care and quality/risk issues and communicates information to appropriate individuals and departments. • Completes psychosocial history or socioeconomic assessment as determined by healthcare team or high-risk indicators. • Coordinates the completion of requisite forms by doctors, patients, and patients families for any services required. • Maintains accurate and timely documentation of case management activities to assure that physicians and caregivers are well informed regarding the discharge plans. • Adheres to all policies and procedures regarding documentation and confidentiality of information. • Demonstrates knowledge of the dynamics of abuse/neglect, including identification and reporting laws. • Coordinates with investigating law enforcement, protection agencies, hospital security, risk management, and healthcare team. • Demonstrates knowledge of community resources serving high social risk populations. • Develops and maintains information on community resources and referral requirements based on patient population as identified in the unit scope of practice. • Facilitates communication between the patient and family and the healthcare team. • Assesses and communicates the patients social, cultural, emotional, and economic problems to medical staff and other healthcare providers as needed. • Effectively intervenes with patient/family in resolving emotional/behavioral obstacles to patients progress, recovery, and disposition. • Initiates and participates in multidisciplinary discharge planning rounds and collaborates with internal and external health care providers, patients, and families to develop comprehensive discharge plans. • Maintains professional growth in managed care, care management, other health care, financial trends, clinical practice, and research. • Organizes individual workload and sets appropriate priorities based on patients medical plan, patient's needs, and policy and procedures. • Provides crisis intervention and management. • Provides therapeutic intervention with patients and family including individuals, marital, parental, family, and group therapies. • Participates in meetings and on committees and represents the department and hospital in community outreach efforts.
Qualifications:
• Master's degree in social work from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work. • Valid Social Worker license in the State of Maryland. • Experience in social work in a hospital, inpatient psychiatric or medical/health setting or area of specialty preferred.
Compensation:
This position has a hiring range of USD $61,838.00 - USD $111,259.00 /Yr.