Crisis Assessment Social Worker Part-Time Days Position

Company: MetroWest Medical Center
Location: Natick
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Job Summary: The MetroWest Medical Center is seeking a skilled Social Worker to join its team. As a Crisis Assessment Social Worker, you will be responsible for facilitating care along a continuum through effective resource coordination to help patients achieve optimal health, access to care, and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patients resources and right to self-determination.Key Responsibilities:

• Conducts complex psycho-social assessment and intervention to promote timely throughput, safe discharge, and prevent avoidable readmissions.
• Integrates national standards for case management scope of services including: Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention, and patient satisfaction; Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is the right sequence and at appropriate level of care.
• Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards, and Tenet policy.
• Education provided to physicians, patients, families, and caregivers.
• Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resource to Tenet performance standards.Requirements:
  • Master's of Social Work.
  • Preferred: 2 years of acute hospital experience.
  • Required: MSW. Must be currently licensed, certified or registered to practice profession as required by law or regulation in state of practice or policy. Active license for state(s) covered.
  • Preferred: Accredited Case Manager (ACM).Physical Demands:
    • Lift/position up to 25 lbs.
    • Push/pull up to 25 lbs of force.
    • Frequent sitting.
    • Moderate standing, walking, reaching, stooping, and bending.
    • Manual dexterity, mobility, touch, auditory to perform all the related duties of the position.Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

Keywords: MetroWest Medical Center, Boston , Crisis Assessment Social Worker Part-Time Days Position, Healthcare , Natick, Massachusetts