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Social Worker Intern - Full Time - Days - Jackson
General Summary
Full Time Benefits Eligible
8:00am - 4:30pm
The Social Worker Intern is responsible for creating outcomes for the patient and family by managing complex psychosocial and economic co-morbidities. Provide education and consultation regarding resources, collaborate to develop a discharge plan and facilitate and monitor its implementation. Assist patient/family adjust to and cope with illness, diagnosis, treatment options and prognosis. Through advanced practice skills mobilizes resources to reduce risk, serves as a liaison between the hospital and the community. In addition offers crisis interventions to patient/family.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Masters degree in Social Work from an accredited program required
- Ability to interview, assess, organize and problem solve
- Ability to identify appropriate community resources on assigned caseload and to work collaboratively with patients, families, multidisciplinary team and community agencies to achieve desired patient outcomes
- Ability to analyze data
- Familiar with PC
- Exposure and/or experience in pre-acute and post-acute care, as well as community resources
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as to develop collaborative relationships with physicians, families, patients, interdisciplinary team and other community agencies
- Ability to analyze, develop and manage change; to integrate Continuous Quality Improvement principles for service and organization work improvements
- Ability to work with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds; be flexible, open-minded and adaptable to change
- Demonstrates the ability to connect patients and families with necessary services, both inside and outside the HFHS
- Maintains a current working knowledge of services available in the local community, particularly services available to patients with limited or non-existent payment resources
Must demonstrate patience and tact when dealing with patients, families and other staff
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURES REQUIRED
- LLMSW required
- Must obtain full licensure upon 12 months of completing 4,000 supervised hours in a full time status
- A limited licensed MSW must practice under direct supervision of a LMSW
- A LLMSW must sit for and pass The State Board after acquiring 4,000 hours of supervised social work experience
- This previous supervised work experience may be acquired outside of the Henry Ford Health System