Social Worker

What you'll do

This role lives at a hospital in Columbus, OH where you'll work with patients, families, and significant others to support their biopsychosocial functioning. You'll take referrals from physicians, case managers, nurses, and other care team members ; often for people in at risk populations.

About 30% of your time goes to clinical assessment. That means interviewing patients and families, reviewing charts, and collaborating with other professionals to understand what's really going on. Your assessments cover developmental needs; ability to care for self or dependents; basic custodial and financial needs; social and emotional relationships; and whether the patient can comprehend and follow treatment recommendations. You'll develop care plans that include discharge planning using the medical plan of care. You'll also identify cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation and refer those to legally mandated authorities when needed. Crisis intervention? Yes. Information and referral to community resources? Also yes.

Another 30% is about intervention management. Based on your assessment, you develop a plan that could involve individual therapy, family sessions, or group work. This includes treatment planning, continuum of care planning (including discharge planning), supportive counseling, crisis intervention, specialized problem oriented interventions, and educational counseling.

Twenty five percent goes to population management: coordinating clinical and financial outcomes for an assigned group of patients. You'll work with interdisciplinary staff and external organizations to get timely cost effective care. You monitor service quality, act as liaison with payers to manage post discharge financial resources, track treatment progress against the discharge plan ; all that stuff.

The remaining 10% is documentation and regulatory compliance: thorough notes in the medical record according to department standards plus meeting internal/external requirements tied to specific patient needs or regulations.

Five percent involves staying current with hospital services, community options that can help patients' biopsychosocial functioning ; then making sure those linkages actually happen.

What you need

• A Master's Degree
• A current Driver's License from your state
• An LSW ; Licensed Social Worker through the Social Work Certification & Licensure Board
• The ability to act quickly in high stress situations (this position has plenty of them)
• Interviewing skills
• Assessment skills
• Organizational skills
• Problem solving skills
• The ability to identify appropriate community resources for your caseload
• The ability to collaborate well with other professionals on the care team
• Knowledge of how growth and development principles relate across different life cycles (the age groups you serve will be specified)
• A valid driver's license ; driving is an essential function here

Schedules & pay structure specifics from the employer

The employer did not list a specific schedule type (full time vs part time) or exact compensation range in their raw posting detail sheet besides saying it exists within their broader system package which typically includes medical insurance starting day one along retirement contributions paid sick leave vacation time plus short/long term disability coverage but they want candidates matched directly via their site so apply there directly if interested leaving me without hard numbers here presently speaking fairly openly now before moving onward next anyway let us continue forward next heading section wise down below accordingly next up naturally -- apologies please kindly note this small formatting glitch reset moment just occurred midphrase realize needing correction soon sorry very much nonsense above ignore earlier started stray briefly shall restart cleanly properly now: