Overview

Mercy Medical Center a Dignity Health member has been building a rich history of care in our community for more than 100 years. We have grown from a small one-story wooden structure into a major healthcare provider with a new 186-bed main campus offering the latest in facility design and technology. Mercy also operates Outpatient Centers a Cancer Center and several rural clinics.Wherever you work throughout our system you will find faces of experience with dedication to high quality personalized care. Joining our 1300 employees 230 physicians and many volunteers you can help carry out our commitment to providing our community with the excellence they have come to associate with Mercy Medical Center.

Responsibilities

Position Summary

The Clinical Social Worker is responsible for performing social work assessments and interventions as needed for inpatients outpatients and emergency department patients. They are dedicated to patient and family centered care that values personal self-determination skilled at managing multiple priorities at once and engaging in creative compassionate and ethical problem-solving. As a member of a multidisciplinary health team they perform comprehensive assessments and develop treatment plans that integrate the medical social and resource issues that impact individual patients families and at risk populations.

Clinical Social Workers are responsible for working collaboratively with all healthcare team members to develop and implement treatment plans that support patient-centered plan of care for both individual patients and the medical community.

The functions of the Clinical Social Worker includes crisis intervention patient /family intervention high risk screening brief counseling referring for financial or other identified resource needs arrange and facilitate family/patient representative meetings with the health care team as needed assist in post-acute placement on complex discharges and engagement of appropriate agencies or community resources when high risk patients are identified.

The Clinical Social Worker establishes and maintains professional relationships with physicians case managers nursing staff county agencies community resources patients and families.

The position will be required to serve on hospital committees and take part in developing and presenting in-services to Hospital staff.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• At least two years of clinical and/or medical social work experience is required. If operational conditions permit training a candidate without the required experience may be considered.

• Knowledge of contemporary behavioral and systems theories relevant to health care; end-of-life dynamics and interventions; grief and bereavement counseling; substance abuse identification and interventions; support for victims of abuse neglect or violence; community or financial resources for underserved or vulnerable populations. SSDI SDI and other governmental/county requirements/programs.

• Thorough comprehension of OBRA and Title 22 is required.

• Master's Degree from a School of Social work accredited by the Council of Social Work Education

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Clinical Social Worker in process preferred in California.

Pay Range

$32.08 - $46.51 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.