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Social Worker II
Goodyear, Arizona Abrazo West CampusEmbark on a rewarding career with Abrazo West Campus hospital. If you are a compassionate healthcare professional eager to contribute to patient care, this is your opportunity where your skills make a difference every day. Join us in delivering exceptional healthcare with a personal touch.
At Abrazo West Campus, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That’s why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Career development and continuing education opportunities
- Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status
- 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
- Implementation or oversight of implementation of the transition plan
- Leading and/or facilitating multi-disciplinary patient care conferences including Complex Case Review
- Other related job tasks or responsibilities as assigned
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 patient’s resources and right to self-determination. The individual in this position has overall responsibility for to assess 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
- Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resouce to Tenet performance standards.
- Special Skills:
- Knowledge of clinical social work practices and regulation standards within a healthcare setting.
- The knowledge base of psycho-social assessment and intervention, continuum of care and case management methods and standards, excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Demonstrates knowledge of Age-Specific Criteria, National Association of Social Work (NASW) Standards of Practice.
- Minimum Requirements:
- Education:
- MSW
- MIDAS and Curaspan to be successfully completed within first 90 days
- Education:
- Preferred Requirements:
- Experience: Two (2) years acute hospital experience.
- Licensure/Certification: LCSW, Accredited Case Manager (ACM)
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