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Social Worker Crisis Assessment

Worcester, Massachusetts Saint Vincent Hospital
Category Social Workers Job ID 2603003025
Facility Saint Vincent Hospital Status Part Time Shift Day
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Overview


Embark on a rewarding career with Saint Vincent Hospital 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 Saint Vincent Hospital, 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

Job Summary

Up to $10,000 Sign-On bonus based on experience

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; 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, implementation or oversight of implementation of the transition plan,
  • Leading and/or facilitating multi-disciplinary patient care conferences including Complex Case Review,
  • Communicating with patients and families about the plan of care,
  • Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications

Required

  • Education: Bachelor's of Social Work
  • Certifications/Licensure: Must be currently licensed or license eligible to practice as a LICSW, LCSW, or LMHC in adherence with state regulatory requirements

Preferred

  • Experience: 2 years of acute hospital experience

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.
Tenet participates in the E-Verify program. Follow the link below for additional information.
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The employment practices of Tenet Healthcare and its companies comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

2603003025

Salary: $45.26 - $70.15 hourly **Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience

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