Job Description
Tenet Desert is seeking a Social Work Social Worker for a job in Palm Springs, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Social Worker
- Discipline: Social Work
- Duration: Ongoing
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours
- Employment Type: Staff
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Up to $25,000 Sign-On bonus based on experience
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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.
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GENERAL DUTIES:
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The individual in this position is responsible to facilitate care along a continuum through effective resource coordination to help patients achieve optimal health, access to care and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient’s resources and right to self-determination. The individual in this position has overall responsibility to assess the patient for transition needs including identifying and assessing patients at risk for readmission. Conducts complex psycho-social assessment and interventions to promote timely throughput, safe discharge and prevent avoidable readmissions. This position integrates national standards for case management scope of services including:
Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention and patient satisfaction
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- Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is sequenced and provided at the appropriate level of care
- Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards and Tenet policy
- Education provided to physicians, patients, families and caregivers
- Precepts new staff members and acts as resource to all staff.
- Participates in department Quality Improvement initiatives, one committee participation and/or major projects as assigned
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This individual’s responsibility will include the following activities:
a) complex psycho-social transition planning assessment and reassessment and intervention
b) assistance with adoptions, abuse and neglect cases, including assessment, intervention and referral as appropriate to local, state and /or federal agencies
c) care coordination,
d) implementation or oversight of implementation of the transition plan,
e) leading and/or facilitating multi-disciplinary patient care conferences including Complex Case Review,
f) making appropriate referrals to other departments,
g ) communicating with patients and families about the plan of care,
h) collaborating with physicians, office staff and ancillary departments,
i) assuring patient education is completed to support post-acute needs ,
j) timely complete and concise documentation in Case Management documentation system,
k ) maintenance of accurate patient demographic and insurance information,
l) and other duties as assigned.
Tenet Desert Job ID #2503012753-1. Posted job title: Social Worker Full Time Days
Benefits
- Sign-On bonus