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Social Worker

Schedule: Monday - Friday (8:30 am - 5 pm)

As Mount Sinai grows, so does our legacy of caring

Located in the heart of Miami Beach, overlooking the breathtaking intracoastal waterway, Mount Sinai Medical Center is dedicated to providing exceptional health care to our diverse community enhanced through innovation, technology, teaching, and research.

Mount Sinai is South Florida's largest private independent not-for-profit hospital with 672 beds, and a tight-knit community of more than 4,000 employees.

We provide world-class care:

• A new seven-story Surgical Tower with 154 all-private rooms and patient centered technology promotes an exceptional patient experience
• Named one of America's 250 Best Hospitals for 2020 and 2021 by Healthgrades, positioning Mount Sinai among the top 5% of hospitals in the nation for overall clinical excellence.
• A pioneer in innovative medical research in areas such as cardiology, cancer, memory disorders and pulmonary diseases
• The BEST cardiac surgery survival rate in Florida

Position Responsibilities:

• Facilitates discharge arrangements in collaboration with patient/family and the healthcare team ensuring arrangements meet patient continuing care needs. Ensures services are arranged and communicated. As needed, follow up to ensure services provided as arranged. Understands placement intricacies and can interpret requirements from state, local, and federal agencies to optimize placement of patients in the most appropriate setting Aligns needs of patient with appropriate placement options.
• Documents activities with entries that are consistent with entries that are consistent with meeting department/hospital requirements, licensure and regulatory guidelines. Support interdisciplinary team conferences and contribute to the planning and review of care for patients presented as needed.
• Identifies and records clinical, psychosocial and financial barriers to a smooth transition across the healthcare continuum and assists in identifying and facilitating system improvements. Utilizes communication, negotiation ,and advocacy skills with patient/family, staff, healthcare team, and community resources.
• Provides crisis intervention ,supportive counseling and initiates referrals to appropriate resources to ensure patient /family psychosocial and emotional needs are addressed.
• Based on referral from Case Manager completes comprehensive psychosocial assessments to evaluate the patient / family to identify ability to meet patient care needs.
• Serves as a consultant for processing issues such as guardianship, abuse /neglect, power of attorney, healthcare surrogate, advance directives, psychiatric involuntary admission, Baker Act. Initiates/completes forms required for post-acute placement.
• Maintains current knowledge and researches availability of community agencies and community resources for social, emotional or financial assistance. Maintains collaborative relationship with post-acute providers and community services.
• Participates in weekend rotation and takes calls as scheduled. Promptly responds to requests for consultative services to patients after normal working hours .
• In collaboration with the Case Manager, provides information, education to patient/family on community resources and options for post-acute care appropriate to the age of the patient served. Initiates referrals to community agencies as needed. As patient is transferred, communicates pertinent information to next Social Worker and Case Manager to transition the patient to the next level of care.
• Serves as a resources to hospital staff and physicians regarding emotional, social, and psychosocial components of patient illness. Ensures integration of the interdisciplinary team in understanding and integrating these aspects into the plan of care.
• Participates in quality improvement activities to effect optimal outcomes for the patient and MSMC/MHI. Utilizes data, trends and reports to proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and promote leading practice.

Qualifications:

• Mental Health Certification, State of Florida preferred
• 2 years experience
• Bachelor's Degree preferred

Benefits:

We believe in the physical and mental well-being of our employees and are committed to offering comprehensive benefits that fit their personal needs. Our robust employee benefits package includes:

• On-site housing for selected positions and more!
• Employee assistance program
• Health benefits
• Wellness program
• Life insurance
• Healthcare spending accounts
• Tuition reimbursement
• Long-term disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan