Medical Social Worker II

Munson Healthcare

Medical Social Worker II

Traverse City, MI
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    _ A Day in the Life_

    • Provides social work services including short-term individual counseling, community resource planning and crisis intervention counseling, community resource planning and crisis intervention.

    • Assesses of the client’s psychosocial status, emotional factors related to illness, environmental resources and obstacles to maintaining safety, the patient/family psychosocial status and response to psychosocial interventions, family dynamics and communication patterns, potential for risk of suicide and/or abuse or neglect.

    • Participates in effective interdisciplinary care coordination, identification of problems, development of a plan of care, adherence to the plan of care and discharge planning.

    • Identifies and utilizes appropriate community resources and assesses patient/family ability to access them. Evaluates patient/family response to interventions when referred to community agency and satisfaction of the services provided.

    • Records in a timely manner evaluation data, progress notes, and interventions including client and family’s response to interventions in the electronic medical record.

  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    _ What’s Required_

    • Master's degree in Social Work from the Council on Social Work Education.

    • Current Michigan License as a Master’s Social Worker required.

    • 2 years of clinical or family work experience. Home care or hospice experience preferred.

    Additional Information

    _ Are you Munson Material? Apply today!_

    Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.