Social Worker LCSW

Company: Catholic Health Initiatives
Location: Roseburg
Posted on: June 21, 2022

Job Description:

**Social Worker LCSW**CHI Mercy Health of RoseburgRoseburg, Oregon**Requisition ID** 2021-212723 **Employment Type** Full Time **Department** Care Management **Hours/Pay Period** 80 **Shift** Day **Weekly Schedule** Monday - Friday 8am - 4:30pm Including Rotating Weekends **Remote** No **Category** Case Management and Social Work**Overview**CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive, highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization, the core values - Compassion, Inclusion, Integrity, Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities, you will feel immediately at homeRoseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush, forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua.In many places, you'll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here, but it slows to an easy, welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant, instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are, "Wow, that's expensive." Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.**Responsibilities****Up to $20,000 Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Assistance Eligible Position!****Pay Scale:** $31.92 - $46.29**Shift:** Monday - Friday 8am - 4:30pm Including Rotating Weekends**Job Summary:**Responsible for performing social work assessments and interventions as needed for inpatients, and emergency department patients. The functions of the Social Worker includes crisis intervention, patient/family intervention, high risk screening, brief counseling, referring for financial or other identified resource needs, arrange and facilitate family/patient representative meetings with the health care team as needed, assist in post-acute placement on complex discharges and engagement of appropriate agencies or community resources when high risk patients are identified.**Essential Duties:**+ Providing developmentally appropriate care for all populations served: plan for the safe discharge and continuity of care, recognize and plan for the unique needs of all ages, the physically disabled, mentally ill, chronically ill, terminally ill,and vulnerable populations.+ Advocacy and education: patient/family self-care management; patient/family health management education; bioethics referrals and management; physician, staff, and community education; case/care management/coordination educationand training; risk management identification and referral.+ Psychosocial management: crisis intervention; psychosocial assessment/functioning; counseling and support and referral; abuse/neglect/trafficking identification, assessment, and referral (partner, child, elder, etc.); family issues affecting care; coping/emotional adjustment; grief/bereavement support; adoption; surrogacy, and safe surrender support, management, and resources; health/wellness promotion; substance abuse screening, management, and resources; psychiatric screening, management, and resources; staff support; assessing, addressing, managing, and resources related to social determinants of health (e.g. housing and food insecurity, transportation).+ Patient/Family Care Conference: interdisciplinary care communication/coordination related to continuity/transitions of care planning and management.+ Continuity/Transition Management: As part of the Care Management/Coordination team, facilitation of patient decisions and communications regarding post-acute care; professional responsibility for knowledge of community resources related to clinical social work scope of service and functions and social worker discretion; maintaining appropriate up-to-date resource lists; education for patients/families about availability of community resources; mental health service and support coordination; grave disability, palliative care/end-of-life, and hospice patient/family support, referrals, and management; interventions, management, and coordination of transition planning for psychosocially complex cases.+ Community Resource Coordination: life-care planning; expert consultation on health care resource management; team and patient education regarding various health-related insurance/support programs (e.g. Medicare/Medicaid/SSI); building and maintaining community relationships to address needs of patients experiencing homelessness and to meet other social determinants of health needs.+ Performance & Outcome Management: in-depth understanding and application of federal/state/local regulatory agency guidelines, The Joint Commission standards; and other regulatory and accreditation requirements; implement evidence- based practices; support organizational financial performance, length of stay, cost per case, readmission prevention efforts and revenue cycle goals.+ Provide support and social work services to outpatients if directed by Care Coordination leaders.+ Participate in performance improvement teams and programs as necessary.+ Demonstrate behavior that aligns with the Mission and Core Values of the Organization.+ Responsible for completing required education within established timeframes.+ Adhere to all hospital policies, standards of practice and Federal or State regulations pertaining to social work practice.+ Clinical supervision: opportunity to support provision of clinical supervision to staff seeking licensure.**Qualifications****License/Certification:**+ Current LCSW license issued by the State of Oregon required.**Experience:**+ Two (2) years post-MSW health care experience required.+ Knowledge of human behavior, social systems and general social work practices and principles required.+ Must be able to relate to a wide range of people from different cultures, professions and value systems.+ Excellent customer service and presentation skills are a must.+ Strong interpersonal and written communication skills are essential.+ Demonstrated ability to apply analytical and problem solving skills.+ Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks or projects effectively.+ Ability to work independently as needed with a high degree of detail orientation.+ Ability to work efficiently in a fast paced environment with changing priorities.+ Ability to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary care team.**Education:**+ Master's degree in Social Work accredited by the Council of Social Work Education.**Equal Opportunity**CommonSpirit Health--- is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed toa diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered foremployment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genderidentity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, parental status,ancestry, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protectedby law. For more information about your EEO rights as an applicant,pleaseclick here. (https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/35300/img/v1\_0/EEOLawPoster.pdf)CommonSpirit Health--- will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).External hires must pass a post-offer, pre-employment background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with an arrest and/or conviction will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, ban the box laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by telephone at (415) 438-5575 and let us know the nature of your request. We will only respond to messages left that involve a request for a reasonable accommodation in the application process. We will accommodate the needs of any qualified candidate who requests a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).CommonSpirit Health--- participates in E-Verify.

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