Social Worker MSW - Moses Taylor

Moses Taylor Hospital; Scranton (Lackawanna County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Moses Taylor Hospital is seeking a Social Worker MSW to provide professional psychosocial services to patients and families. The role includes conducting assessments, collaborating with healthcare teams, and facilitating support services. This position offers a robust benefits package, including health insurance and reimbursement for education costs.

Benefits

Health insurance

Flexible scheduling

Licensure reimbursement

Student loan contribution up to $20K

Opportunities for degree advancement

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Social Work or related field required.
• 2-4 years experience preferred.
• BCLS certification required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct psychosocial assessments for patients.
• Provide emotional support to patients and families.
• Manage high-risk referrals and discharge planning.

Skills

Assessment

Counseling

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Master's Degree in Social Work

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Job Summary

The social worker provides professional services to patients and families, which facilitates the use of individual, public and private resources so that optimal functioning can occur for both the patient and the family. These core services include assessment of psychosocial functioning and capacities, counseling for care planning and decision-making, social work treatment and community resource planning. Social workers collaborate with many disciplines, programs, departments and organizations in the accomplishment of these duties.

Essential Functions

• Conducts Psychosocial Assessments for Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric patients as well as neonatal, Infant, and Pediatric patients.
• Determines inter-relatedness of psychosocial factors and health status/disease process.
• Identifies emotional, social and financial needs of patient/family and provides assistance/referrals as appropriate.
• Identifies appropriate treatment plans and follows-up with discharge planning team.
• Acts as expert in the area of Social work. Assists Social Workers with problem cases.
• Provides emotional support to patient/family. Helps families/patients cope with illness, disability, and situations.
• Facilitates patient/family support groups (i.e. Cancer, Stroke and AIDS).
• Participates in interdisciplinary discharge planning process: conducts and documents proactive, concurrent discharge planning assessments.
• Implements discharge plans, i.e., setting up home health, transfers to other facilities, initial nursing home placements.
• Assists in Quality Improvement Initiative: monitor and trend re-admissions to the hospital.
• Manages high risk referrals: Performs discharge planning activities on newly diagnosed cancer patients, suspected abuse, adoptions, high-risk mothers, fetal demise, long-term acute placements, ER, Psych transfers, HIV/Aids and hospice patients.
• Assist Case Management to move patients to more appropriate level of care.
• Promotes effective communication and ensures continuity of care. Verbal communication with patients, families, hospital staff are always positive, accurate, supportive, and clearly understood.
• Social worker maintains a supportive, collaborative partner-like relationship with nurses, physicians, and case management team.
• Consistently performs all social service function to meet department volume and quality standard. Effectively communicates to supervisor status of current workload daily.
• Attends meetings regularly: attend daily discharge planning meetings with Case Manager. Attend monthly department Meetings and committees.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
  
  

Qualifications

• Master's Degree Of Arts in Social Work or related field. required
• 2-4 years Experience preferred
  
  

Licenses and Certifications

• BCLS - Basic Life Support required and
• LMSW - Licensed Medical Social Worker - State Licensure required
  
  

To apply, please email [e-mail]

INDBH

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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