Tenet Desert is seeking a Social Work Social Worker for a job in Palm Springs, California.
Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385 bed acute-care hospital classified as a stroke receiving center and level I trauma facility with an innovative , patient centered and evidence-based Rehabilitation Services Department. Our compassionate team provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care rehabilitation, joint replacement & spinal surgery, neurosurgery, ICU, Telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as well as outpatient therapy, hand and lymphedema clinics.
**Up to $25,000 Sign on Bonus for Qualified Candidates **
GENERAL DUTIES:
The Social Worker II is a social worker performing the case coordination tasks with the insurance and medical staff within the Acute Rehabilitation Unit along with the complete range of social work services, including psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, and clinical and therapeutic interventions to the persons served, their family members, caregivers in an interdisciplinary environment consistent with the employee’s qualifications, professional practices and ethical standards. This is in order to coordinate their care, community resources and continuum of care, as well as follow up post discharge. The Social Worker II may be assisted by the clinical nurse manager and the program director when needed. It is expected that the Social Worker II attends interdisciplinary meetings, family conferences to receive input and provide feedback to the team on the person served progress and needs. The Social Worker II shall participate in and demonstrate accountability for quality improvement, team coordination (as it applies to patient care issues), discharge planning, and continuum of care (including post discharge follow up). In Support of DRMC’s Mission and Vision, adopts and lives the Values of Desert Regional Medical Center: Patient Focus, Accountability, Compassion, Continuous Improvement, Diversity, Innovation, Integrity, Joy, and Teamwork.
Shift: Days
Hours: 0800-1630
Schedule: 5 shifts per week. Some weekends required.
DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC DUTIES:
Clinical social work services duties:
· Provides direct service/intervention to best meet the needs of the persons served by the department
o Assesses the persons served and family needs in order to provide quality care:
§ Psycho-social assessments will be initiated on every person served by 36 hours from admission to the program.
§ Obtains information from staff and physicians, and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs.
§ Assists team in developing the patient/family plan of care.
§ Organizes and participates in family conferences for every patient within 5 days of admission.
§ Assessments take into account age, gender, socio-economic, cultural and other patient specific characteristics when making clinical determinations and treatment plans.
· Serves to create a patient-centered atmosphere during the rehabilitation stay.
· Will develop therapeutic intervention goals based on the skill level:
o Goal from the assessment are shared with the rest of the treatment team as a means to coordinate care (short term and long term goals will be established)
o Established a range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the persons served.
· Maintains documentation of professional involvement and intervention to achieve effective recording of services rendered to the persons served and their families. Follows Medicare guidelines for documentation on a Medicare-Certified inpatient rehabilitation program.
· Acts as a patient advocate to protect the rights and best interests of the persons served.
· Participates in department and hospital-wide performance improvement in order to maintain accepted social services department standards.
· Participates in activities particular to CARF standards and serves to maintain those standards as they apply to patient care and program goal achievement.
· Demonstrate own professional development and leadership skills to insure quality patient care in accordance to accepted professional standards.
· Maintains confidentiality of information with respect to persons served, employees and all other matters 100% of the time and in a manner consistent with HIPAA guidelines.
· Demonstrates on-going communication with all team members for the benefit of affecting a patient plan of care.
· Assists, communicates and participates in discharge planning during the pre-admission process as needed.
· Assists, communicates and participates with all ARU team members in discharge planning processes.
· Participates in all team conference meetings:
o Documents the changes to the plan of care.
o Coordination of discharge planning activities to coincide with the discharge date as determined by the rehabilitation team.
o Timely communication with the person served and/or family to effect a timely discharge
o Discussion and identification of any issues that would jeopardize a safe discharge from the rehabilitation program.
· Participates in multidisciplinary rounds/meetings.
· Assistance with communications with the person served employer to facilitate return to work when reasonable accommodations are possible.
· Assistance with communications with the person served landlord to facilitate home modifications.
· Assistance with filing for state and federal benefits, and other services the person served or their caregiver(s) may be eligible for.
· Referral to city services such as ramp building or grab bars installation, caregivers.
· Education of the person served on the importance of developing and updating regularly a portable medical profile.
· Assistance of the person served with gathering the documents for a portable medical profile.
Tenet Desert Job ID #2503023451-0. Posted job title: Social Worker Trauma Center Full Time Days