Clinical Social Worker - Case Management (Per Diem)-2 - Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

Job Type: Per Diem

Time Type: Part time

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Position Summary: As a core member of the interdisciplinary care team, the social worker effectively collaborates to actively address the coordination of post-acute care services and the provision of psychosocial support services to patients and families. Serves as a resource for the health care team on appropriate and effective disposition that reduces the length of stay and readmission.

Assessment and Planning:

• As a member of the interdisciplinary care team, identifies high-risk psychosocial factors of patients/families that impact status and discharge planning.
• Educates the care team on the impact of social drivers of health (SDOH) on medical treatment and care planning.
• Develops a psychosocial assessment, and intervention plan regarding identified patient and family needs utilizing all available sources of information.
• Participates in inter-disciplinary and inter-agency collaborative efforts to identify and coordinate care, treatment and post-acute care needs.
• Psychosocial assessment includes social, economic, cultural, age-related, and behavioral factors.
• Demonstrates competency in knowledge of community resources to address identified needs.
• Provides crisis intervention and counseling services to assist patients and families with their emotional needs and adjustment to the medical episode.
• Documents assessments, intervention plans, and outcomes that are consistent with departmental guidelines and Hospital policies.
• Provides accurate, timely, and appropriate documentation of all social work assessments and interventions in the electronic medical record per regulatory policies and procedures (this says the same thing as the bullet above. We can eliminate the bullet above.)
• Assesses and screens patients for interpersonal violence (child, adult, elder). Provides education and facilitates reporting by interdisciplinary team members per hospital policies.
• Provides education and facilitates reporting by interdisciplinary team members with direct knowledge of patient condition and events of concern.
• Screen and identify SDOH risk factors that contribute to readmission, such as inability to access medications, lack of transportation, insurance status, etc.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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