About Job
- Manage all aspects of discharge planning for assigned patients to ensure a timely discharge and provide appropriate connection with post-discharge care providers.
- Communicate with interdisciplinary team about the discharge planning status of all patients referred.
- Educate patients, family and physician regarding post-acute options and address freedom of choice and financial concerns.
- Conduct initial and ongoing psychosocial assessment and interventions and makes treatment recommendations to engage patients and families in adherence to the treatment plan by reducing or eliminating the social, psychological, financial, behavioral, and regulatory barriers to successful medical outcomes.
- Serve as a resource person to provide counseling and intervention related to treatment decisions and end-of-life issues.
- Advocate for patient and family by providing intervention in cases involving child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, elderly abuse, institutional abuse, and sexual assault.
- Advocate for patient and family empowerment and independence to make autonomous health care decisions and access needed services within the health care system and community.
- Meet core social work competencies and adhere to regulations.
- Remain current with regulations which impact the care of patients and regulatory compliance.
- Promote individual, professional growth and development and meet mandatory and continuing education requirements.
- Support department-based goals which contribute to the success of the organization.
- Master's Degree in Social Work or Master's of Science in Social Administration (MSSA)
- Current state licensure as a Social Worker, including LSW, LISW, LISW-S or PC
- Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA)
- Three years of experience in healthcare systems to include exposure to and experience in pre-acute care
- Hospital Social Work experience
- Knowledge of community resources
- Certification as a Case Manager within one year of eligibility from an approved professional organization
- LISW with two years of practice post LISW
- Three years of outpatient therapy experience
- Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
- Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
- Requires normal or corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
- Sedentary work exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: active or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and /or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
- Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.
Professional Field




Patient Focus
Diagnoses
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Issues
Sexual Abuse
Therapeutic Approach
Methodologies
ECT
Modalities
Families
Individuals
Practice Specifics
Populations
Victims of Crime/Abuse (VOC/VOA)
Racial Justice Allied
Settings
In-patient Non-Psychiatric
In-patient Psychiatric
Milieu
Partial Hospitalization (PHP)
Private Practice
Schools
Home Health/In-home
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