Social Worker MSW II - Case Management
Company: Christus Health
Location: Corpus Christi
Posted on: May 10, 2022
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Job Description:
DescriptionSummary:The Social Worker is responsible for meeting
patient need for the continuum of care by the discharge planning
process. Directs access to appropriate community and adjunct
resources that foster quality of life. Interviews patients and
their family members/support systems to obtain an age-specific
psychosocial assessment. Assist patients and families in
adjustments to illness and disabilities and resolving personal
financial and environmental difficulties which interfere with the
care management process. Provides crisis intervention, individual
and family therapy where skilled social work judgment is required.
Provide discharge arrangements beginning upon patient's admission.
Attends and actively participates in interdisciplinary patient care
rounds and works with the health care team to collaboratively
formulate appropriate and realistic discharge plans. Assesses the
psychosocial needs of family members / support systems that may
interfere with optimizing the patient's care management.
Demonstrates awareness of the importance of addressing patient's
quality of life by maintaining current and up to date information
of community resources and refers patients to those community
resources which will enhance patient's life. Provides
resource/referral for counseling services and other recognized
psychosocial therapies, child abuse referrals, adult protective
service referrals, guardianship petitions and psychiatric
petitions. Initiates referrals and appears in court as subpoenaed.
Demonstrates competence to perform assigned patient care
responsibilities in a manner that meets the age-specific and
developmental needs of the patients served by the department.
Provides referral to Spiritual Care and assist in crisis
intervention to patients and their family members involved in
emergency trauma, deaths, loss of home, family violence, etc.
Assess high-risk patients who exhibit behaviors that are
maladaptive to the adjustment of the illness and /or disability.
-CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Shoreline overlooking
Corpus Christi Bay is the largest and foremost acute care medical
facility in the region, with a full range of diagnostic and
surgical specialty services in cardiac, cancer and stroke care. It
is the leading emergency facility in the area and the only Level II
Trauma Center in the Coastal Bend, staffed with physicians and
nurses specially trained in emergency services.
Keywords: Christus Health, Corpus Christi , Social Worker MSW II - Case Management, Executive , Corpus Christi, Texas
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