Licensed Social Worker, Concierge Care

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist & Wake Forest University School of Medicine; North Carolina; On-site; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate and skilled social worker to join their team. This role involves providing comprehensive psychosocial services, conducting assessments, and offering evidence-based treatment to patients and families in an outpatient setting. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to develop and monitor care plans, ensuring that patients receive the support they need. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and have the ability to mentor new social workers, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dynamic team dedicated to improving health and advancing healing for all.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Social Work required.
• Minimum of 1 year experience in healthcare needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive psychosocial services and assessments.
• Advocate for patients and families throughout care continuum.

Skills

Psychosocial Assessment

Crisis Intervention

Clinical Supervision

Patient Advocacy

Case Management

Education

Master's degree in Social Work

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary:

Provides comprehensive psychosocial services, assessment, diagnosis, evidence based treatment, case management and triage for patients, families, and caregivers in an ambulatory outpatient setting.

Essential Functions

• Provides biopsychosocial assessments, clinical behavioral health diagnoses, treatment planning, evidence based clinical interventions, information and referrals to community

• Interviews patient/patient's social support system to complete initial psychosocial evaluation and/or completes psychosocial assessment for the patient.

• Provides brief psychotherapy, supportive counseling, and education to patient/patient's social support system. Assists in coping with stress related to hospitalization, disability, chronic/terminal illness.

• Identifies, plans, and coordinate aspects of care for the patient/family that require social work knowledge and skill.

• Develops, monitors and revises a plan of care based on assessment of patient/family needs, in collaboration with multidisciplinary team.

• Provides and assesses effectiveness of patient/family education.

• Advocates for the patient and family throughout care continuum. Maintains availability to the patient/family as a resource to facilitate communication among providers and to monitor services rendered.

• Provides clinical supervision to provisionally licensed social worker and/or mentors new social workers in the department.

• Serves as a resource to team members and physicians regarding emotional, social and psychosocial components of the patient's illness and its effects on their social support system.

• Intervenes in crisis situations, appropriately and effectively applying crisis intervention theory and skills.

• Actively participates in the initiation, development, and maintenance of clinical pathways/protocols and other population-based programs, facilitating collaboration of multidisciplinary teams in the process.

• Analyzes and evaluates the effect of social work involvement on quality outcomes, fiscal parameters, customer satisfaction, and system operations and implements strategies to resolve the system, performance, and patient variances.

• Refers patients/family to external agencies/resources for treatment when appropriate.

• Gathers and interprets appropriate data from the medical record, physician reports, patient, and/or family as evidenced by documentation.

• Documents in a manner that is accurate, timely, and according to departmental policy, including assessments, progress notes, attendance records, patient/family education, outcomes as needed.

• Completes departmental forms and logs as required.

• Participates, as appropriate, in clinical research and may provide local, national, and/or international presentations within specified field. Physical Requirements Hearing (corrected) adequate for oral / aural communication with patients, staff, family, visitors, etc. Vision (corrected) adequate for reading. Intelligible speech and normal language/cognitive skills. Must be able to push patients in a wheelchair or stretchers. Lifting of patients, equipment or supplies will be required up to 20 pounds frequently and 50 pounds occasionally. Able to laterally transfer patients 100 pounds rarely. Sitting, standing, and walking required throughout the day. Job duties sometimes require climbing stairs, kneeling, twisting, bending; on occasion, crouching, crawling and reaching overhead. Work is in a fast-paced clinical environment. The work environment is primarily indoors.

Education, Experience and Certifications:

Master's degree in Social Work from a CSWE approved graduate school required.

Minimum of 1 year experience within home department or 2 years healthcare experience required for external candidates.

License in Clinical Social Work in state of NC and/or SC required.

Additional Certification preferred.

Proof of membership in a professional organization required.

Must have the ability to mentor/supervise new social workers as needed by department.

About Us

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

About the Team

Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

Mission

To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.

Vision

To be the first and best choice for care.

Culture Commitments

We create a space where all Belong

We Work as One to make great things happen

We earn Trust in all we do

We Innovate to better the now and create the future

We drive for Excellence - always