SOCIAL WORKER
Company: Campbell County Health
Location: Gillette
Posted on: May 9, 2024
Job Description:
ABOUT CAMPBELL COUNTY HEALTH
Campbell County Health (CCH) is the most comprehensive healthcare
provider in the State of Wyoming. Certified as an Area Trauma
Hospital, Campbell County Health -includes -Campbell County
Memorial Hospital, an acute care, community hospital in Gillette;
Campbell County Medical Group with nearly 20 -clinics; -The Legacy
Living & Rehabilitation Center -long-term care center and the
-Powder River Surgery Center. We are dedicated to -excellence every
day---
To be responsive to our employee's needs we offer:
- Can accrue up to 192 hours per year (increases with
tenure)
- Paid sick leave days
- 403(b) with employer match
- Employee Assistance program
- , discounted on-site childcare
- And more! - -to learn more about our full benefits package
JOB SUMMARY
The Social Worker focuses on integrating case management, social
services, discharge planning, utilization review and pre- and post-
hospital services to ensure clinical efficacy and best outcomes for
our patients. The Social Worker works to ensure the provision of
quality health care along the continuum of care, decreases
fragmentation, enhances the patient's quality of life, efficiently
uses patient care resources, maximizes cost containment
opportunities, and improves successful post-hospitalization
transition care. The Social Worker guides the integrated team in
the functions of care coordination, facilitation of referrals,
education, discharge planning, utilization management, and
advocacy. The Social Worker reports to the department head.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Completes assessment of patient and family promptly when
patients are referred to Case Management (CM). Specific attention
is paid to readmitted, at-risk and/or resource-intensive
inpatients. Patients will be triaged among the RN Case Manager,
Case Manager, and Social Worker based on intensity of patient's
psychosocial, financial and discharge needs.
- Assesses patient/family adaptation to illness/disability and
capacity to provide for patient's care needs. Monitors patient's
clinical course to provide ongoing patient care coordination.
Verifies patient's needs for acute hospital level of care using
InterQual Criteria. Identifies obstacles to discharge.
- Collaborates with physicians, nurses and other disciplines
involved with care of the patient to foster a coordinated approach
to patient care. Communicate with physician regarding the medical
plan of care, anticipated discharge, and consideration of
alternative setting.
- Facilitates and impacts process issues to avoid delays in
patient care. Intervenes with appropriate individuals/departments
about service delays that may impact quality of care and/or length
of stay. Provides feedback to supervisors regarding delays to
constantly improve the process.
- Functions as a liaison to external agencies including home
health/hospice, rehab/skilled facilities and assisted living/long
term care facilities, public health, and other community-based
resources as identified.
- Maintains required and concise documentation for patients
including physical and functional limitations, psychosocial
characteristics, plan of care to address post-hospital, treatment,
and post treatment care needs, educational needs, and involvement
in planning for care of patient and family, family/ social support
systems, financial, economic, and discharged needs. Initiates
referrals to disciplines with appropriate paperwork.
- Focuses on the patient's goals and preferences and includes the
patient and caregiver/family as active partners in the discharge
planning for post-discharge care. The discharge planning process
and plan must be timely, consistent with the patient's goals for
his/her treatment preferences, ensure effective transition of the
patient from hospital to post-discharge care with effective
arrangements made prior to discharge, and reduce the factors
leading to preventable hospital readmissions.
- Assists patients and their families in selecting a
post-discharge care provider, by sharing and using data on quality
and resources use measures, as may be relevant to the patient's
goals of care and treatment preferences.
- Demonstrates commitment to work partners to help each other
reach mutual goals and learn from each other. Demonstrates actions
and behaviors that consistently promotes trust, respect, positive
attitude and promotes team morale.
- Seeks peer and supervisor consultation regarding problematic
cases or cases demonstrating deviations from the plan of
care.
- Conducts self in professional manner, using Standards of
Behavior as outlined by CCMH.
- Maintains professional relationships with other departments,
external organizations, service providers, physicians, and families
of patients.
- Must be free from governmental sanctions involving health care
and/or financial practices
- Complies with the hospital's Corporate Compliance Program
including the Code of Conduct, laws and regulations, and hospital
policies and procedures. Works within the scope of the Wyoming
Social Work Practice Act.
- Other duties as assigned. This list is non-exhaustive.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
- Education
- A minimum bachelor's degree in social work is required.
- Licensure
- None required.
- Experience
- Three years of experience in the -healthcare field is
preferred.
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Keywords: Campbell County Health, Casper , SOCIAL WORKER, Healthcare , Gillette, Wyoming
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