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JOB SUMMARY
The Licensed Social Worker works in collaboration with physicians, behavioral health clinicians and other staff at The Wright Center for Community Health to address barriers to medical and behavioral health care. The Licensed Social Worker addresses complex social needs of the underserved, uninsured, or under insured community members. This role serves in an expanded clinical role to collaborate with community members, Primary Care Providers, Behavioral Health Providers, dental, community agencies, insurance companies, and other health/community related entities to provide a model of care that ensures the delivery of quality, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare services. The Licensed Social Worker‘s expertise is sought to assess, develop and implement member care plans as it relates to addressing the social determinants of health and optimizing the members‘ physical and psychosocial health status. This is to ensure the member of the program has the resources necessary to achieve their highest level of functioning. Community outreach, such as home visits, health screenings and events may be required. This position requires flexible working hours including evenings, weekends and holidays. The Licensed Social Worker will work additionally as a Collaborative Care and Integrative Care Social Worker and work/coordinate the psychiatric collaborative model of care.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS
This position reports to the Director Behavioral Health Services. No other positions report to this position.
DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS
PACE Card Metrics
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
*COVID-19 Vaccination Required*
Full Time
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
$59k-73k (estimate)
09/30/2022
05/08/2024
thewrightcenter.org
S ABINGTN TWP, PA
50 - 100
1976
$10M - $50M
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
The Wright Centers Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Psychiatry Residencies, as well as our Cardiovascular Disease and Gastroenterology Fellowships, were designed to empower residents as innovators and nimble leaders responsive to the needs of the community they serve. Within our non-profit Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortium, our trainees are immersed in diverse community venues where they are most needed, increasing their long-term likelihood of working in such settings after completing their training. Our training model follows the national Beyond Flexner movement, focused... on training community-minded health professionals as agents of more equitable healthcare. Our regional residents and fellows train within Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wayne and Pike counties. Strong affiliations with Commonwealth Health System, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Geisinger, as well as multiple regional learning environments including Maternal and Family Health Services, Pike Family Health Center, Rural Health Corporation, Scranton Counseling Center, Scranton Primary Health Care Center and Wayne Memorial Community Health Center allow us to provide diverse, innovative learning environments for trainees. Our National Family Medicine Residency (NFMR) learners train at 1 of 4 Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) partner sites across the United States. Under our innovative consortium model, the NFMR learners are supported by The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, the educational infrastructure of AT. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona and the osteopathic training support of Still OPTI. Our NFMR learners train at the following FQHC partner sites: El Rio Community Health Center, Tucson, AZ; HealthPoint, Auburn, WA; HealthSource of Ohio, New Richmond, OH; Unity Health Care, Washington, D.C.; and Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, Portland, OR.
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