Social Worker MSW

Company: Del Sol Medical Center
Location: El Paso
Posted on: October 12, 2021

Job Description:

Description

Introduction

Are you looking for a work environment where diversity and inclusion thrive? Submit your application for our Social Worker MSW opening with Del Sol Medical Center today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.

Benefits

At Del Sol Medical Center, we want to ensure your needs are met. We offer eligible colleagues an attractive benefit package that includes medical, wellbeing, dental and vision benefits along with some unique benefits including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Flexible Spending
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Personal Leave
• 401K(100% annual match - 3% to 9% of pay based on years of service)
• Academic Assistance and Reimbursements for Tuition and Student Loans
• Employee Discounts including Tickets, Retail, Mental Health Apps, Education Apps, Identity Theft Protection etc.
• Home, Auto, and Pet Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability coverage
• Adoption Assistance
• Legal Benefits and lots more!

Learn more about Employee Benefits

We are seeking a(an) Social Worker MSW for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

GENERAL SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

The medical social worker evaluates psychosocial needs and provides community service coordination for identified patient populations, providing support and crisis intervention where indicated. The social worker acts as a liaison between the patient and community resources/post-acute care providers. The social worker creates and facilitates timely implementation of discharge plans and arranges post-acute interventions identified in the plan of care. The social worker facilitates patient movement across the continuum of care and identifies, addresses, and tracks barriers to patient throughput.

DUTIES include but are not limited to:

• Perform thorough assessments and develop appropriate plans of care for high risk patients with discharge planning or psychosocial needs
• Perform proactive discharge planning
• Provide expertise in post-acute services and community resources
• Identify appropriate level of post-acute care needed
• Identify and address barriers to discharge and recovery, including financial, emotional, psychosocial, medical, spiritual
• Provide psychosocial support and resources
• Provide education to patients and caregivers regarding community resources and post-acute level of care criteria, benefits, and coverage
• Assist in coordinating and facilitating family conferences
• Engage in community outreach and program development to support patient and caregiver needs
• Participate in interdisciplinary care planning process
• Maintain effective communication between members of the care team
• Provide expertise in ethics cases
• Assist patients and caregivers with end of life issues, from advance directives to grief support
• Provide psychosocial support to patients and caregivers for adjustment to patients’ chronic and/ or terminal illness/death

EDUCATION:

• Minimum: Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) required
• Master of Social Work (MSW) preferred

QUALIFICATIONS:

• State licensure preferred (may be required by state regulations)
• Acute care social work experience preferred
• Certification in social work or case management preferred
• Knowledgeable about internal, community and post-acute care resources
• Basic social worker skills, including but not limited to, empathy, sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity, advocacy, communication skills and crisis intervention

Del Sol Medical Centeris a full service, acute-care hospital in east El Paso, Texas. We have a Level II trauma designation. This facility has 300+ patient beds. Our range of services include emergency care, cardiac care, women’s services, Level III NICU, rehabilitation, a bariatric clinic, and a Minimally Invasive Surgery Center. Del Sol Medical Center is part of Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare. We are a leading healthcare provider for El Paso and the surrounding region that is part of HCA Healthcare.

HCA Healthcare has been named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for over a decade.  In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Across HCA Healthcare’s more than 2,000 sites of care, our nurses and colleagues have a positive impact on patients, communities and healthcare.
Together, we uplift and elevate our purpose to give people a healthier tomorrow."- Jane Englebright, PhD, RN CENP, FAAN
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Social Worker MSW opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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