Job: Social Worker

Job Description

Job Type: Part time, Hourly

Wage: $27.32-$34.35/hr. 

Location: Salida, CO.

Job Description

HRRMC Discharge Planning has a Part Time position open for a License Social Worker. This position is eligible for an 8 % pay differential , retirement savings plan, employee assistance program, and an employee wellness program. The position will be work 6-10 hours per week. BSW is required. Apply on line : www.hrrmc.com

SCOPE STATEMENT:

Medical Social Workers assist patients and families with health-related problems and concerns by performing a comprehensive assessment of the patient’s social, emotional, environmental financial, and support needs. The assessment gathers information necessary for a successful plan of care. Patients in particular need of social work intervention include individuals with chronic illnesses, the terminally ill, mentally ill, homeless individuals, and individuals with multiple social, financial, emotional, or housing problems

ESSENTIAL DUTIES PER AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY

1. Provide services for the entire HRRMC campus, including clinics and main hospital.

2. Comprehensive psychosocial assessment of identified patients

3. Helping patients and families understand the illness/treatment options, as well as consequences of various treatments or treatment refusal.

4. Helping patients/families adjust to hospital admission/treatment-potential role changes; exploring emotional/social responses to illness and treatment

5. Educating patients/families on community resources, entitlements, advance directives

6. Employing crisis intervention and grief counseling as needed.

7. Diagnosing underlying mental illness-providing or making referrals for therapy

8. Educating staff on patient psychosocial issues on an as needed basis

9. Educating patients/families on the levels of health care-acute, outpatient, home care, hospice

10. Facilitating decision making on behalf of patients and families

11. Coordinating patient discharge and continuity of care planning

12. Arranging for resources/funds to finance medications, durable medical equipment, and other needed services

13. Advocacy for patients and families in different settings-inpatient, outpatient, home, and in the community

14. Active participation in all Swing Bed discharge planning including completing a trauma informed care assessment.

15. Timely and accurate documentation on the day of evaluation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ALL EMPLOYEES :

1. Finance

• a. Makes recommendations for equipment needs to manager, including providing supporting justification
• b. Identifies cost savings and productivity improvement opportunities and recommends to manager/director/VP
• c. Accurately and timely records time worked and requests timecard modification/PTO through full utilization of Kronos functionality. Works overtime only with manager/director/VP prior approval and identifies observed overtime concerns/issues
• d. Makes recommendations for strategic planning productivity improvement to manager/director

2. Quality

• a. Follows all policies and procedures. Follows regulatory standards elements of performance per policy.
• b. Follows expectations for a culture of safety. Provides immediate feedback to direct supervisor and/or manager about concerns and/or recommendations related to safety and accountability. Maintains a calm and safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
• c. Using data from audit and survey results along with input from the team lead, supervisor, and/or manager implements quality metrics being captured for Performance Improvement. Follows all standard of care procedures in order to achieve optimal results.
• d. Monitors vendors for compliance with badge use and immediately reports concern to immediate supervisor.
• e. Engages with department performance improvement strategies, may be asked to lead a strategy per supervisor/manager recommendation. Communicates performance improvement recommendations to supervisor.
• f. Proactively participates with the annual competency completion expectation.

3. Employee Relations, Retention and Recruitment

• a. Complete required onboarding and training by due date. Involved with training and onboarding new employees as requested.
• b. Complete all staff competencies and mandatory education as required by the due date.
• c. Complete self-evaluation by the listed due date. Provides at least two measurable goals for the coming review year. For any competencies in which you are scored as needs improvement or does not meet, complete an action plan with measurable steps and due dates to accomplish the listed competency
• d. Review and approve policies, procedures, standards and protocols as required. Follow all HRRMC policies as outlined.
• e. Actively involved and provide input with departmental HR strategic plan
• f. Attend at least 75% of departmental meetings; provide education updates at staff meetings as applicable when attend conferences or educational events.
• g. Responsible to ensure all essential duties of job description are met as well as required education, certification and licensure as outlined.
• h. Actively participates in one on one meeting with immediate supervisor and providing concerns with follow-up solutions to the issues outlined.
• i. Communicate all questions, concerns and recommendations to direct report immediately in a concise, tactful and straightforward manner. Log into SharePoint daily to review daily communications to stay abreast of information. Read and respond to emails daily and ensure all emails contain two critical components (purpose and request). Employees who are on the Communications Team share relevant info at their monthly departmental meeting.
• j. Follow the constructive problem solving policy and process.

4. Service Excellence

• a. Provides exceptional customer service in all interactions utilizing proactive patient communication and practicing AIDET (Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation and Thank).
• b. Immediately addresses customer concerns and communicates promptly with immediate supervisor to keep them in the loop. If concern cannot be addressed, refer to direct report or grievance officer.
• c. Responsible for carrying out departmental service excellence strategies in accordance with the departmental strategic plans. Provides input into the development of the service excellence plan.

5. Marketing

• a. Provides input to manager and/or helps department achieve community needs and relationships strategies on departmental plan.
• b. Shares ideas for departmental events with manager and attends departmental events.
• c. Presents self and the hospital in the best possible manner.

6. Facility

• a. Provides immediate feedback to the team lead or in the absence of team lead the supervisor and/or manager about concerns and/or recommendations related to regulations and codes.
• b. Completes work orders timely once a maintenance issue is identified.
• c. Provides immediate feedback to the team lead and/or supervisor and/or manager about concerns and/or recommendations related to safety and accountability concerns.

7. Information Services

• a. Practices the utmost in information security ensuring that personal passwords and user names are never shared with anyone.
• b. Will always verify vendors claiming to be working with HRRMC before allowing vendors into secure areas or access to any electronic devices (including verbal instruction to execute commands on your PC in person of over the phone). Contacts the IS Emergency Line at (719) 530-2225, option 1 to reach a member of IS Staff immediately for verification
• c. Ensures that no link or attachment within an email received from outside HRRMC is clicked unless the content is expected, recognized and verified. Employee promotes a culture of suspicious of outside emails requesting sensitive information. If an unsolicited message is received from outside HRRMC (even from a known contact) employee shall use extreme caution. If there are questions or uncertainty, employee will verify with the sender, call IS, or start and. IS ticket for assistance.

8. Physician Relations, Retention and Recruitment

• a. Encouraged to communicate ideas for new providers and services to supervisor and HRRMC leadership if applicable. Will participate in recruitment interviews as requested and will maintain candidate confidentiality both internally and externally. Provides immediate feedback on candidates to direct report

Requirements

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in social work with at least 1 year experience.
• LCSW preferred

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS Must maintain current CPR-BLS certification 

VACCINATION EXEMPTIONS ACCEPTED

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a negative drug screen test*, criminal background check, reference checks, infection prevention procedures (Proof of COVID vaccination, TB test, Flu Shot, immunization records, etc.), physical capacity profile and acknowledgement of policies.

**Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Click “Visit” below for more detail on this specific job.