Job Description

Main Function:

The social worker, as a member of the interdisciplinary care management team, functions with the goals

of linking patients/clients with appropriate resources, services and opportunities while enhancing the

developmental, problem-solving, and coping capacities of the patient/client population. Provides skilled

interventions for all the support and resolution of patient and family crises, problem solving and decision

making, advocacy and facilitation necessitated by life changing events (adoption, guardianship, abuse

placement, bereavement), mediation of risk factors and coping with disease and disability, and other

psychosocial and or socioeconomic issues. Serves as integral discipline in the indisciplinary care planning

process to facilitate discharge planning process.

Duties and Responsibilities:

I. Quality

• Delivers social work intervention to patients/clients requiring social work intervention as referred by
• Reviews all existing medical/health history and current clinical presentation from the patient/client's
• Participates in utilizing clinical pathways and other tracking tools in patient/client population.
• Completes a timely, accurate and comprehensive social work assessment which entails the following: a) mental health status and/or pre-existing mental health problems.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Preferred 2-3 years of social work practice in the acute care setting.
• Extensive knowledge in the following areas: - community resources and services and their related costs - federal and state social service programs - concepts and techniques of social planning - social and environmental factors affecting patient/client population Strong oral, written, interpersonal and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to
• Work independently with minimal supervision are required. Critical thinking skills required in every
• Dimension of practice. Current knowledge of medical/care treatment and JCAHO standards relative
• to social work practice.

Contacts:

• Patients/families, physicians, wide variety of health care providers, and community agency representatives.

License:

• Eligible for current and valid Social Worker license in the State of Maryland.

Physical Demands:

• Moderate physical effort as it relates to transporting patients, assisting with transferring of patients, and carrying of patients' medical records, commonly utilized equipment which may ; typewriter, computer, printer, telephone, copy and facsimile machines.

Sensory Requirements:

• able to communicate verbally, attend to detail and use CRT screen which may produce mental and visual fatigue , hear and participate in conversations/interactions amongst all members of the health care team. possesses manual dexterity to operate equipment noted above.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.