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Job Title : Medical Social Worker - Hospital

Location : Fairfield, CA, 94533

Duration : 2+ Months

Job Type : Temporary Assignment

Work Type : Onsite

Shift Timings : 8 : 00 AM- 4 : 30 PM

Pay Rate : $35.00-$35.00 / hr

Overview :

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a locally based, nonprofit healthcare organization. Their health system includes two hospitals, a 100-provider primary and specialty care medical group, a cancer center; and a new medical fitness center.

JOB SUMMARY : Duties :

• Provides direct clinical social work service, counseling, discharge planning, and case management services to hospital patients and their families including assessment and documentation of emotional, social, financial, environmental or follow-up referral needs.
• Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Formulates a psychosocial plan of care related to assessment of patient's unique strengths and needs.
• Develops a discharge plan for case load as designated by the team.
• Monitors progress toward goals of care and identifies barriers to meeting estimated length of stay.
• Facilitates integration with community-based resources to optimize patient health.
• Activities are consistent with System mission and values and in compliance with applicable regulations and System policies and procedures.
• Partners with the physicians, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team to establish, document, implement and evaluate a plan of care based on the patient's unique health strengths and needs.
• Brings psychological assessment skills; acute, long term, and community health expertise; learning theory; and multidisciplinary team expertise to the interdisciplinary team.
• Monitors progress of the plan of care and communicates any changes with the care team.
• To the extent possible, provides integrated – mind, body, spirit – service to the patient and family through a mutually agreed upon plan of care and patient advocate relationship.
• Supports System processes related to the health management of patients across the continuum of care, e.g. QI and / or clinical practice team membership, clinical research, quality monitoring, community networking.
• Assesses needs of patients / families and conceptualizes problem situations within social work scope of service using appropriate age-related skills.
• Provides direct social work services and counseling to patients and their families. Interprets social, psychological, emotional, financial and family issues for attending physicians and other health care team members.
• Completes documentation required in patient's medical record on department forms and reports, and in MIDAS+ and in Cerner.
• Demonstrates continued enhancement of professional skills.
• Complies with department and hospital policies and procedures.
• Supports organization goals to provide the best / optimal care to our patients and families, and community to our highest customer satisfaction.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.