Job Information
Community Health Systems Social Worker MSW - Lutheran Hospital of Indiana in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Job Summary:
Under the direction of Case Management, serves as a coordinator of an interdisciplinary approach to guide patients through the continuum of care with special focus on discharge planning, psychosocial needs assessment, care/resource management, and provider/insurance issues.
Collaborates with the physicians, patients, and their family members and others to facilitate the achievement of desired outcomes, address ongoing needs, maximize patient, family and provider satisfaction, optimize systems/resource utilization, facilitate timely discharge, assure appropriate length of stay, reduce unnecessary delays and other adverse variances to the delivery of services.
Minimal Acceptable Job Qualifications
Education:
- Master's degree in Social Work or a Human Services Field.
Experience:
- Minimum of one to two years of clinical social work experience in a hospital or health care setting which may have included the appropriate supervision or internship.
Licenses/Certificates:
- NA
Equal Opportunity Employer
INDBH
To apply, please email nickoda_millscuriel@chs.net
Equal Employment Opportunity
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