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Form of workMU Healthcare is looking for a compassionate and dedicated Social Worker who thrives in making a difference during critical moments. As a vital member of our healthcare family, you'll embody empathy, resilience, and a commitment to ensuring our patients and their families receive not just medical care, but unwavering emotional support. Your innate ability to connect with individuals during their most vulnerable times will shine as you offer crisis intervention, guiding them towards hope and healing. Join us in this impactful role, where your genuine concern and guidance will uplift lives and shape the future of healthcare.
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Shift: Shifts will be for day shift any day of the week (Sunday through Saturday)
Department: MUPC Case Management
Salary Range: PRN rate is $25 per hour
ABOUT US
MU Health Care is a growing academic health system in mid-Missouri comprised of multiple hospitals - including the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and region's only Children's Hospital - and over 50 specialty clinics located throughout the region.
As an MU Health Care employee, you'll be part of an exceptional team committed to our mission of saving and improving lives. Our core values of inclusion, respect, service, discovery, responsibility and excellence foster a collaborative work environment where you can grow your career.
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Job Summary:
Assesses patient and family psycho-social and discharge planning issues relevant to medical treatment. Provides crisis intervention, emotional support, resource information, discharge planning, legal reporting and facilitates ethical consultations.
Essential Functions:
Assess needs and locate community resources for patients and families in need of concrete services such as transportation, lodging and food; Develop/maintain effective working relationships with community agencies.
Assist patients/families with issues requiring intervention within the hospital and community.
Consult and collaborate with health care providers and other staff regarding patient care, problems and discharge planning.
Counsel, plan and implement discharge and post-hospital care with patients and families considering age specific needs.
Document social services provided appropriately and in accordance with department/hospital policy and maintain department statistical records. Participate in department and hospital committees as assigned.
Interview patients and families for social information relevant to treatment and health care planning and compile comprehensive social evaluations.
Provide crisis intervention, emotional support, counsel for adjustment to illness/disability for personal/family problems related to health/illness on bio-psychosocial issues and complex situations. Refer patients and families to community, state and federal agencies and resources and provide coordinative services. Perform legal reports for suspected child abuse, elder abuse, domestic violence, and guardianship referrals.
May complete unit/department specific duties and expectations as outlined in department documents.
Interview patients/families for social information relevant to health care planning in order to establish a treatment program; counsel patients and families for adjustment to illness/disability in situations of limited complexity.
Required Qualifications:
Masters of Social Work degree.
Preferred Qualifications:
Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensure by the Missouri State Committee for Social Workers board.
Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. This position is very active and may require ambulating, remaining in a stationary position and positioning self to reach and/or move objects above the shoulders and below the knees. The employee may frequently lift and/or move objects up to 10 lbs. and occasionally move objects up to 25 lbs.
