About Job

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Social Worker Intern is responsible for creating outcomes for the patient and family by managing complex psychosocial and economic co-morbidities. Provide education and consultation regarding resources, collaborate to develop a discharge plan and facilitate and monitor its implementation. Assist patient/family adjust to and cope with illness, diagnosis, treatment options and prognosis. Through advanced practice skills mobilizes resources to reduce risk, serves as a liaison between the hospital and the community. In addition offers crisis interventions to patient/family.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Masters degree in Social Work from an accredited program required.
Ability to interview, assess, organize and problem solve.
Ability to identify appropriate community resources on assigned caseload and to work collaboratively with patients, families, multidisciplinary team and community agencies to achieve desired patient outcomes.
Ability to analyze data. Familiar with PC.
Exposure and/or experience in pre-acute and post-acute care, as well as community resources.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as to develop collaborative relationships with physicians, families, patients, interdisciplinary team and other community agencies.
Ability to analyze, develop and manage change; to integrate Continuous Quality Improvement principles for service and organization work improvements.
Ability to work with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds; be flexible, open-minded and adaptable to change.
Demonstrates the ability to connect patients and families with necessary services, both inside and outside the HFHS.
Maintains a current working knowledge of services available in the local community, particularly services available to patients with limited or non-existent payment resources.
Must demonstrate patience and tact when dealing with patients, families and other staff.

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURES REQUIRED:

LLMSW required.
Must obtain full licensure upon 12 months of completing 4,000 supervised hours in a full time status.
A limited licensed MSW must practice under direct supervision of a LMSW.
A LLMSW must sit for and pass The State Board after acquiring 4,000 hours of supervised social work experience.
This previous supervised work experience may be acquired outside of the Henry Ford Health System.

Additional Details

This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

Overview

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.

Benefits

The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.