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Up to $10,000 Sign-On bonus based on experience
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 patients resources and right to self-determination. The individual in this position has overall responsibility for assessing 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
* Complex psycho-social transition planning assessment and reassessment and intervention, assistance with adoptions, abuse and neglect cases, including assessment, intervention and referral as appropriate to local, state and/or federal agencies, care coordination, oversight of transition plan implementation, leading multi-disciplinary care conferences, making referrals, communicating with patients and families, collaborating with physicians and staff, ensuring patient education, documentation, maintaining accurate patient info, precepting staff, facilitating TEMPO, participating in quality initiatives, and other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education: Required: Master's of Social Work
Experience: Preferred: 2 years of acute hospital experience
Certifications: Required: MSW, licensed or registered as per law; Preferred: Accredited Case Manager (ACM)
Additional notes on vaccination requirements and equal employment opportunity statements are included.
Additional Details
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Health Care Provider and Consulting
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care, Medical Practices, and Individual and Family Services
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