Social Worker MSW in New Brunswick, New Jersey at RWJBarnabas Health

Job Title: Social Worker MSW

Location: Main Hospital - New Brunswick

Department Name: Case Management

Req #: 0000271372

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $85,100.00 - $109,100.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Social Worker MSW

Summary:

The Social Worker collaborates with members of the healthcare team to facilitate the progression of the patient's treatment and discharge plan. This position incorporates assessment, care coordination, and education of the patient/caregiver/healthcare team to reach appropriate goals from hospitalization and post-hospitalization care. The Social Worker provides direct clinical social work services to patients and their families in an interdisciplinary team approach.

A typical day as a Social Worker MSW may look like:

• Completing initial psycho-social assessments on assigned patients, providing psychotherapeutic counseling with individuals, family or groups as needed.
• Giving clinical consultations as needed
• Providing patient centered advocacy, collaborating with interdisciplinary team
• Managing complex discharge plans, building and maintaining relationships with internal/external resources, making referrals to community agencies and entitlement programs, and continuing ongoing education.
• The Social Worker ensures continuity of care for patients with complex post-acute needs and maximizes the patients and families abilities to meet the continuing needs within their social and financial framework
• The social worker demonstrates understanding of all stages of growth and development to assess each patients age specific needs to provide individual treatment and care
• Formulates comprehensive psychosocial assessments to identify the psychosocial/behavioral problems for implementation of treatment plans
• Participates in ongoing case conferencing with focus on psychotherapeutic advocacy, clinical goals, and treatment planning
• Provides crisis interventions for patients and their family members/significant others/PCGs
• Provides psychosocial counseling to patients and family members/significant others/PCGs to assist in adapting to illness, diagnoses, and discharge
• Arranges for placement of patients in inpatient psychiatric units or intensive outpatient mental health and/or substance abuse programs
• Provides assistance to patients and family members in locating outpatient resources
• Assessing/considering the patient's cultural and religious practices, emotional barriers, desire and motivation to learn, physical and cognitive limitations and language barriers
• Documenting findings on the Social Worker assessment form; documenting and communicating information to multidisciplinary team in order to coordinate and maximize care; documenting in medical records according to department and hospital standards
• Developing a discharge plan, in collaboration with the patient/family and healthcare team that will provide maximum benefit for each patient
• Consulting/conferring with physicians and medical center staff regarding the patient's medical situation, his/her psychological adjustment to illness/disability and/or continuing care needs
• Making appropriate referrals to DCPP, Adult Protective Services, and other agencies as necessary
• Assisting with transfer or discharge of patient to another level of care or setting based on patient's assessed needs and hospital's capacity to provide care
• Notifying supervisor/manager, in a timely manner, of difficult discharge placement concerns
• Collaborating with Risk Management and legal staff on guardianship/other legal issues to prevent discharge delays
• Accurately completing all transfer and discharge summary form

This Role Might Be For You If:

• You are passionate about helping patients and families resolve complex social, financial, and emotional barriers to health and recovery.
• You excel in collaborative environments and take pride in building strong, supportive working relationships with multidisciplinary care teams.
• You possess excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills, maintaining a high bar for timely clinical record-keeping.
• You enjoy continuous learning and are eager to attend educational seminars to bring new community resources back to your team.
• You believe that true patient healing and successful transitions are optimized when medical expertise meets deep empathy and advocacy.

To be considered for this opportunity, you must have:

• A Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited School of Social Work.
• An active Social Work Licensure in the State of New Jersey (LSW or LCSW).

• AHA BLS Provider Certification required

• Meets the accrediting and or licensing standards of the profession, CSW, LSW, LCSW

• One to three years experience in related field is preferred

• The flexibility to participate in a weekend and holiday work rotation alongside your team.