Department: Social Services
Employment Status: 0.9 FTE (Full time Equivalent) / 72 Hours Per Pay Period
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm
Position Objective
The Social Worker provides social services to patients facing substantial and often challenging medical issues. The Social Worker will also be responsible for the adequate discharge planning for all patients referred to them by the nursing service and/or Physicians in the hospital. The social worker will be guided in this process by the Discharge Planning Program that has been established at the hospital. Referrals may be given for needs, other than discharge planning, and it will be the responsibility of the Social Worker to follow through with appropriate counselling, treatment, or referral. The Social Worker is under the general supervision of the Assistant Director of Nursing and shall allowed considerable freedom in the fulfillment of responsibilities.
Essential Responsibilities
- Conduct and document assessment of patient and family needs, communicate care issues, and develop appropriate plan
- Perform psychological assessments and discharge planning for high risk patients
- Refer patients to appropriate community resources
- Provide crisis intervention and emotional support to patients and families
- Provide consultation to Physicians and hospital staff regarding psychosocial issues, bioethical issues, and discharge problems
- Document pertinent contracts regarding discharge plans in the hospitals electronic record system
- Attend daily Multidisciplinary meetings and ongoing daily communication with Physicians
Other Responsibilities
- Perform all other related duties as assigned in a professional and responsive manner
- Demonstrate the ability to use relevant equipment
- Support, understand, and promote Alomere Health's mission, vision, values, policies and procedures
- Ability to meet the work schedule requirements with flexibility dependent upon the needs of the department
- Foster respectful working relationships with professional colleagues, patients, families, and general public regardless of age, gender, lifestyle, culture, beliefs, race, socioeconomic class, or ability
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Social Work
- Licensed in the State of Minnesota
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior hospital experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to establish relationships- Position is required to establish good working relationships with Medical Staff Agencies as well as patients, relatives, friends, co-workers, and Physicians
- Ability to establish a strong working relationship with the Clinical Directors and Charge Nurses of each unit of the hospital in order to ensure our patients are adequately supported in their for planning relative to discharge and other needs
Union Position: No
Benefit Status: Full-Time