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Description

The Advanced Cardiac Support (ACS) Clinical Social Worker serves as a core member of a multi-disciplinary collaborative team led by the ACS Medical Director and Program Director that may involve clinic nursing staff, system-wide care and case management staff, pharmacists, substance abuse specialists, and psychiatrists. The role of the social worker is to serve the needs of all ACS patients, including patients with durable left ventricular assist devices, which will require flexibility and an ability to provide different types and intensity of services.

FTE:

• 0.8 case management / programmatic projects / nonbillable work

• 0.2 billable psychotherapy / patient counseling

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Facilitates appropriate patient referrals to, and coordination with, Home Health, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Palliative Care, and Hospice.

• Proactively addresses social work issues in an effort to reduce inpatient admissions, reduced lengths of inpatient stay, and limit patient morbidity and mortality.

• Provides psychosocial evaluation, treatment planning, individual therapy, group support, case management, discharge planning, and crisis intervention to Advanced Cardiac Support patients including patients with durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs). Maintains written progress notes in patients’ electronic medical record as documentation of services.

• Maintains a thorough knowledge of appropriate community resources and makes appropriate referrals to these agencies or services as needed.

• Utilizes appropriate cognitive/behavioral interventions in areas of anxiety reduction, mood management, and relaxation training. Utilizes other professionally accepted psychosocial interventions as appropriate to patient needs.

• Assures compliance with regulatory agencies including but not limited DNV-GL and CMS.

• Works collaboratively with the Advanced Cardiac Support Medical Director and Program Director to develop, implement and assessing clinical and administrative services and programs.

• Serves as a department resource for problem solving issues related to social work. Collaborate with other department to resolve issues, share information, and enhance effectiveness of services and patient care.

• Provides complete psychosocial assessment and care coordination for all left ventricular assist device (LVAD) patients in collaboration with the LVAD Coordinators and ACS Providers.

• Serves as a liaison for the ACS service with the inpatient social worker and case management.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree Social Work from a CSWE accredited School of Social Work.

• upon hire: Washington Advanced Social Worker License. Or

• upon hire: Washington Advanced Social Worker Associate License. Or

• upon hire: Washington Clinical Independent Social Worker License. Or

• upon hire: Washington Clinical Independent Social Worker Associate License.

• upon hire: Eligible for credentialing by Medicare, Medicaid and other Third Party Insurance Payers.

• 3 years Work related experience, preferably in a primary care clinic or hospital environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with underserved, transient populations.

Why Join Providence?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our mission of improving the health and wellbeing of each patient we serve.

Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.

About the Team

Providence Swedish is the largest not-for-profit health care system in the greater Puget Sound area. It is comprised of eight hospital campuses (Ballard, Edmonds, Everett, Centralia, Cherry Hill (Seattle), First Hill (Seattle), Issaquah and Olympia); emergency rooms and specialty centers in Redmond (East King County) and the Mill Creek area in Everett; and Providence Swedish Medical Group, a network of 190+ primary care and specialty care locations throughout the Puget Sound. Whether through physician clinics, education, research and innovation or other outreach, we’re dedicated to improving the wellbeing of rural and urban communities by expanding access to quality health care for all.

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.

Requsition ID: 279643
Company: Swedish Jobs
Job Category: Social Services
Job Function: Clinical Care
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day
Career Track: Clinical Professional
Department: 3908 HEART AND VASCULAR WA SEATTLE
Address: WA Seattle 1600 E Jefferson
Work Location: Swedish Cherry Hill 1600 E Jefferson-Seattle
Pay Range: $36.09 - $57.13
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.