Social Worker

Prepares the patient to transition from the hospital to the next appropriate care setting based on their individual needs.  Use their understanding of medical conditions, insurance coverage and how physical/psychosocial injury may affect the patient once a patient leaves the medical setting to plan and initiate an individualized discharge plan.  Provide clinical information to payers and/or post-acute providers in order to obtain authorization for hospitalized patients. This is an exempt position.

Essential Functions

• Coordinates the discharge planning process for all patients. 

• Evaluates the psychosocial concomitants of illness and trauma and provides social work services to patients and families to optimize their ability to benefit from treatment, cope with the realities of their medical condition and participate in their care. 

• Develops and maintains current knowledge of and liaisons with local, state and federal services that may provide education and resources to patients and families. 

• Supports the efforts of HIM and Patient Accounts by ensuring timely, accurate, and complete data entry in multiple information systems/data bases. 

• Ensures understanding through collaboration with Care Coordinator Physician Services/Interdisciplinary team for review of multidisciplinary plan of care in patient chart (estimated LOS, tentative discharge date, assessed needs for discharge and plan discussed with patient/family). Ensures attendance at Multidisciplinary Rounds or Huddles and reports on discharge plan status. 

• Monitors progress toward the goals of the social work/discharge plan of care and revises it in response to changes in patient needs and condition. Assesses any potential obstacles to discharge (clinical, social, support, home environment) and escalates through appropriate channels to resolution. 

• Ensures post discharge continuing care plan is transferred to the next level of care and remains compliant with documentation policies. 

• Responsible for performing job duties in accordance with mission, vision and values of Tampa General Hospital.

Education

• Master’s degree in Social Work

License/Registration - Issued by Florida or Compact State 

• Licensed Medical Social Worker (i.e. LSW, LCSW, ACSW, etc)

Work Experience 

• 3 years hospital experience required