Social Worker

At Sharon Regional Medical Center, we are committed to improving the health of our communities by delivering exceptional, personalized health care with dignity, compassion, and respect. Our continued focus on the patient experience informs our caregivers about how to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values.

We dedicate ourselves in the communities we serve to delivering affordable health care to all and being responsible partners. No matter what your role, as a member of the Steward family, you are a specialist in making every patient and family feel right at home, every co-worker a key to our success, and every referring practice, a team of prized colleagues.

In support of this, we commit ourselves to the following values:

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Excellence

Stewardship

If you are seeking a fast-paced, challenging position in an organization committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do, our organization may be a good fit for you.

Job Summary:

The Social Worker is accountable for meeting the medically related social and emotional needs of patients that impinge upon the medical condition, treatment, recovery, and transition between care environments. Major functions include psycho-social assessment, discharge planning, and psycho-social and financial counseling.

Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Master's degree in Social Work or other healthcare related field
• 3 years behavioral health experience
• Safe Crisis Management (SCM) completed within 6 months of hire

Job Description:

• Completes assessment of psycho-social, economic, developmental, and environmental needs of referred patients within one working day of referral
• Creates a discharge plan for referred patients within one working day of referral; reviews current assessment findings and discharge plan every one to two working days
• Educates patient/family regarding available community resources in a timely manner
• Implements the discharge plan in collaboration with the physician, case manager, and other providers
• Collaborates with case managers and physicians in ensuring that patients remain at the appropriate level of care
• Provides basic psycho-social and financial counseling if needed based on assessment findings
• Attends and actively participates in interdisciplinary team conferences as needed
• Fosters a cohesive, collaborative, cross-departmental relationship between all post-acute services (both internal and external) while maintaining effective communication with all involved.
• Seeks out information and resources and uses creative problem-solving for complex discharge planning. Explores new resources when the opportunities for the patient are absent or in short supply.
• Ensures patients are moved through the system to optimize financial goals

About Steward Health Care
Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country's largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Steward is among the nation’s largest and most successful accountable care organizations (ACO), with more than 5,500 providers and 43,000 health care professionals who care for 12.3 million patients a year through a closely integrated network of hospitals, multispecialty medical groups, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health centers.
Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 33 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician-owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.