The Social Worker 2 provides advanced skilled interventions for patient and family crises, problem-solving, decision-making advocacy, and mediation of psychosocial or socioeconomic issues related to life-changing events, disease, or disability. Responsibilities include conducting comprehensive needs assessments, facilitating care planning, participating in end-of-life discussions, and documenting outcomes based on the NASW code of ethics.
Requirements summary
A Master's Degree in Social Work or a related field is required for this role, along with a minimum of three years of clinical Social Work experience in a hospital, Skilled Nursing facility, Home Health, or Hospice setting. Candidates must also demonstrate effective interpersonal, organizational, motivational, and communication skills.
postgraduate degreeInterpersonal SkillsWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationOrganizational SkillsCare PlanningDocumentationLeadershipTeam PlayerDischarge PlanningPsychological AssessmentMotivational SkillsAdvance Care PlanningBehavioral AssessmentCode of Ethics AdherenceEnd of Life DiscussionsSocio-economic Assessment
Job description
Summary The Social Worker 2 provides advanced skilled interventions for the support and/or resolution of patient and family crises, problem solving and decision-making advocacy, facilitation necessitated by life-changing events, mediation of risk factors, coping with disease or disability, and other psychosocial and/or socioeconomic issues.
Is a resource for the Social Worker 1.
Education Masters Degree in Social Work or related field required.
Certification, Registration & Licensure Experience Minimum of three years clinical Social Work in a hospital, Skilled Nursing facility, Home Health or Hospice setting.
Demonstrates effective interpersonal, organizational and motivational skills.
Demonstrates ability to function as a team player.
Proficient in written and verbal communication.
Responsibilities Upon consultation, conducts a comprehensive assessment of the patient's behavioral, psychological and socio-economic needs.
Attends Care Planning or Discharge Planning rounds to facilitate communication and the importance of the patient and family's goals.
Participates in end of life discussions and advance care planning.
Bases social work actions by code of ethics according to National Association of Social Workers (NASW).
Documents measurement and evaluation of social service consultation and satisfaction outcomes as patient progresses towards desired goals.
Provides leadership to departmental staff.
Performs other duties as assigned.
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Physical and Work Requirements The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is LIGHT.
The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull less than 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 pounds.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to speak.
The employee is frequently required to bend, do repetitive motion, hear, perform activities that require fine motor skills, reach, sit, and walk.
The employee is occasionally required to kneel, squat, and stand.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.
The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne pathogens, bloodborne pathogens, and bodily fluids.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Concord Hospital (CH) is a nationally-accredited, progressive regional health system.
Over the past two decades, CH has evolved from a community hospital to a $550 million net revenue regional integrated health system with more than 3,574 employees, leaders and clinicians who are talented, mutually supportive, and community centered in helping the organization meet its community mission.
CH has sophisticated clinical and management practices.
The organization consistently performs among the top ten percent of national organizations and has received many national accolades (e.g., most wired, Press Ganey's summit award).
After a four-year effort to strengthen and standardize our quality management processes, Concord Hospital has become the first healthcare system in New Hampshire to be certified as being in compliance with internationally recognized quality management practices ISO 9001:2008 certification, issued by DNV GL.
ISO certification means that patients can be confident CH has implemented and strengthened processes for internal auditing, control of documents, control of records, control of non conforming products, and preventative and corrective action.
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