Clinical Social Worker
Job Details
- Requisition #:
- 3129
- Location:
- Johns Hopkins Intrastaff, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Category:
- Allied Health/Clinical Professional
Johns Hopkins Intrastaff is the internal staffing agency for the Johns Hopkins Health System and partner hospitals, providing temporary support to a variety of the Johns Hopkins locations. Our employees are the strength of our service. Intrastaff is unique because it's one of the very few agencies where a person has the benefit of being a temporary employee and also feels like a member of a large organization. Working at Hopkins means joining a culturally diverse team that includes some of the best nurses, physicians and allied health professionals in the world. Directly or indirectly, you'll have exposure to cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking medical research.
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD is hiring for a Social Worker to support Adult Surg/Medicine.
Schedule: 40 hours per week
Requirements
This position works in collaboration with additional Social Work and Nurse Case Management partners.
Responsibilities include:
early identification, high risk screening and readmission screening of all patients.
Services include:
adjustment to illness counseling, safety assessments, discharge planning, identification of obstacles and barriers to discharge through proactive screening and assessments, and coordination of care with multidisciplinary team.
This position also has shared responsibilities for Care Management coverage during absences for all inpatient units within the Department of Care Management which falls under the Dept of Care Coordination and Clinical Resource Management and is approximately 700 beds.
Additional areas of focus include length of stay, and throughput initiatives, weekend on call and social work emergency preparedness operations.
Qualifications
- MS Social Work from an accredited school of social work.
- Must be licensed by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners at the LGSW level.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in providing clinical social work service, preferably, in a mental health/health care setting.
- Experience with hospital discharge planning is a requirement.
Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
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