Mental Health
Valley Baptist Medical Center - Harlingen
Harlingen, TX
5x8 hrs

Job Summary

The Social Worker 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 for to assess the patient for transition needs including identifying and assessing patients at risk for readmission. Conducts complex psycho-social assessment and intervention 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; Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is the right sequence and at 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; and Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resource to Tenet performance standards.

Job Responsibilities

Coordination of complex discharge planning. Educates and mentors new social work staff. Acts as resource to all staff members regarding polices and procedures as well as community resources. Works under director of the Director of Case Management and the entire team to trend barriers to care as resolve at least one barrier to care.

Qualifications

Education

Required: Master's of Social Work

Experience

Preferred: 2 years of acute hospital experience

Certifications

Required: LCSW or LMSW. Must be currently licensed, certified or registered to practice profession as required by law or regulation in state of practice or policy. Active license for state(s) covered. Preferred: Accredited Case Manager (ACM).   #LI-SC1

Tenet complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.