Social Worker/BA - Comprehensive Adult Program - Sharp Grossmont Hospital - Per Diem - Variable Shift

300 Sharp HealthCare; La Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 49,594,000 - 69,417,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in California seeks a Social Worker for discharge planning and care coordination. The role involves documenting discharge plans, collaborating with the multidisciplinary team, and ensuring smooth transitions for patients through the hospital system.

Required is a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and AHA BLS Healthcare Certification. Hospital experience and case management exposure are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Work is required.
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professionals (AHA BLS Healthcare) is REQUIRED.

Responsibilities

• Provide discharge planning documentation and progress notes.
• Coordinate care and treatment plans with the multidisciplinary team.
• Communicate patient status and follow-up needs to care teams.
• Attend rounds and participate in care planning.
• Document authorizations and treatment plans in the EHR.
• Assist with community resource referrals and patient/family support.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Social Work

Job description

What You Will Do

To provide documentation for discharge planning, psychosocial, treatment plan, UR review, and care coordination for patients. Intake phone calls and assessment patient for appropriate programs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Work.
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Hospital experience.
• Case management experience.

Essential Functions

Communication

• Documents all discharge planning and progress towards goals.
• Consult with team members in development of discharge plans.
• Maintains ongoing communication with multidisciplinary team members regarding patient status and follow-up.
• Attends rounds in major practice areas.
• Documents consultation, recommendations, interventions and treatment plans.
• Communicates needs for patient care conferences.

Community resource

• Refers to internal resources of hospital that can assist patients and families.
• Refers basic community resources.
• Assist with discharge planning for patient and family.
• Provides referrals for ongoing assistance to patient/family.

Consultation and support

• Consults and intervenes in crisis situations.
• Assists staff in de-escalating volatile situation.
• Participate in critical incident debriefings.

Customer service

• Assist Clinical staff with locating Community Resources.
• Assist with referrals to patient's family for ongoing assistance after leaving program.
• Assist with facilitating a timely discharge of patients.

Patient advocate

• Reports all mandatory protective concerns such as Elder Abuse, Child Abuse and Domestic Violence ad required by law.
• Protects patient privacy by maintaining confidentiality.
• Keeps current with regulatory and legal requirements regarding patient privacy and confidentiality standards.
• Identifies bio-ethical dilemmas and initiates appropriate response.

Assess discharge plan

• Assess discharge plan (may complete psychosocial assessments as appropriate per scope of practice and program).
• Identifies the key clinical issues such as grief and loss, adjustment to illness, psychiatric concerns with attention paid to the developmental milestones and life transitions that can impact functioning.

Patient care

• Practices appropriate boundary setting with clients.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity.
• Effective at crisis intervention and problem solving techniques and is a resource to others in these areas.
• Seeks resources when faced with unusual or new situations.
• Evaluates patient/family response to interventions.
• Revises care provided to patients/families.
• Orient patients, initiate, and support admissions process per policy and or department guidelines.
• Complete Utilization Review for admitting and ongoing treatment for patients.
• Document authorizations in electronic health record and per policy or department guideline.

Staff Training

• Adequately orient new employees of rules and responsibilities.
• Evaluate abilities and efficiency.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Good customer service skills and experience working with diverse population.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. We provide medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, women's health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery and bariatric surgery. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care.

At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It's what we call The Sharp Experience - treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care.

We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.

Hours: Shift Start Time: Variable Shift End Time: Variable AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: Every Other On-Call Required: No Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $36.000 - $45.000 - $50.390 The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant's years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.