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    social worker - Pittsburgh, PA , USA, United States - UPMC

    UPMC
    UPMC Pittsburgh, PA , USA, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Description

    University of Pittsburgh Physicians is hiring a full-time Social Worker - MSW to support their Department of Neurology in Pittsburgh The Department of Neurology consists of over 120 providers across Southwest Pennsylvania, providing care across 10 subspecialties of neurological focus. The providers of the Epilepsy Division focus on the research, education, and treatment of Epilepsy and affiliated neurological conditions. This position will support the patients and caregivers of the UPMC Comprehensive Epilepsy Center with identifying community support, counseling, and resource matching.
    Hours for this position will be Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm with no evenings, weekends, or holidays


    Sign-on Bonus Details:

    • $6,000 for a 2-year commitment

    Responsibilities:

    • Demonstrates expertise in accessing social systems by providing resource-specific information to patients and families, initiating contact with appropriate resources and facilitating the patient / family's ability to accept referrals.
    • Maintain extensive knowledge of federal, state and local assistance programs and community resources that affect patient needs.
    • Acts as a mentor to social work students and/or serves as a field instructor to MSW students.
    • Successfully utilize therapeutic counseling methods such as crisis intervention, psychosocial support, brief goal-directed therapy, CISM and/or other appropriate therapeutic methods that may be appropriate to the clinical situation.
    • Provides accurate, timely and appropriate documentation of all social work interventions in the medical record per regulatory policies and procedures.
    • Demonstrate a knowledge of reimbursement systems, the ability to educate patients and families regarding payer requirements / coverage for post-acute care services and the ability to effectively advocate on behalf of the patient to obtain authorizations for continued care as appropriate.
    • Demonstrate the ability to identify, assess, counsel and effectively intervene with medically and psychosocially complex patients with the ability to understand complex dynamics related to the clinical situation.
    • Continue to monitor and evaluate the plan of care, options and available services throughout the hospital stay to effectively meet the patient and family's need. Reassess the plan of care as status changes or at a minimum of every 3 days.
    • Demonstrate appropriate professional practice, maintaining respect for confidentiality and freedom of choice as outlined by the Code of Ethics by the National Association of Social Workers as well as the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.
    • Collaborate effectively with the healthcare team, patients and families and relevant community resources to develop and implement and individualized plan of care.
    • Educate and advocate for patients and families to enhance their ability to make informed decisions regarding medical care, discharge planning, advance directives and end of life care including actively participating in the guardianship process when appropriate.
    • Complete a psychosocial assessment that includes social, economic, cultural, age-related and behavioral factors, history of child, elder or domestic abuse, prior psychiatric or substance abuse treatment, family and social support systems and all other available resources as appropriate to the clinical situation.
    MSW degree from a CSWE accredited School of Social Work required.


    Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:


    Current / active Social Work License required or successful pass of the social work licensing exam within 9 months of employment.


    • Clinical Social Worker (CSW) OR Licensed Social Worker (LSW)
    • Act 34

    UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran


    UPMC has a Center for Engagement and Inclusions that is charged with executing leading-edge and next- generation diversity strategies to advance the organization's diversity management capability and its national presence as a diversity leader.

    This includes having Employee Resources Groups, such as PRIDE Health or UPMC ENABLED (Empowering Abilities and Leveraging Difference) Network, that support the implementation of our diversity strategy.

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