Social Worker MSW

Tenet Healthcare; Goodyear (AZ); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenet Healthcare in Goodyear, AZ seeks an experienced Social Worker to coordinate transition plans and assess psycho-social needs for safe discharge. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, educate patients and families, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Requirements include an MSW and AZ LMSW licensure within 90 days, plus MIDAS and Curaspan training. Acute hospital experience is preferred and engagement with complex cases is expected.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Social Work required.
• AZ LMSW license required within 90 days of hire.
• MIDAS and Curaspan training within 90 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients for transition needs and identify those at risk for readmission.
• Conduct complex psycho-social assessments and interventions to promote timely throughput and safe discharge.
• Lead care coordination and ensure appropriate level of care and sequence.
• Educate physicians, patients, families and caregivers.
• Lead multi-disciplinary patient care conferences including Complex Case Review.
• Oversee implementation of transition plans.
• Assist with adoptions, abuse and neglect cases with agencies as needed.
• Other related tasks as assigned.

Skills

Care coordination

Discharge planning

Psycho-social assessment

Team leadership

Education

Master of Social Work (MSW)

LMSW license (Arizona)

Job description

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 read admissions.

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 resource to Tenet performance standards.

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

Minimum Requirements

Education: Master's of Social Work

Certifications: Must be an Arizona licensed social worker (LMSW) completed within 90 days of hire. MIDAS and Curaspan to be successfully completed within first 90 days is also a required course(s)/training.

Preferred Requirements

Experience: 2 years of acute hospital experience

Certifications: Accredited Case Manager (ACM)