Rehab Social Work Case Mgr II

The Rehab Social Work Case Manager utilizes professional clinical social work skills to assess patients’ need and support systems for efficient discharge planning, psychosocial, counseling, and social drivers of health support needs; monitors and updates the interdisciplinary care plans as appropriate, establishes plans for effective management of the identified needs (episodic and population-based). Assessment, planning, intervention, and reassessment are performed in a collaborative environment, in which they work closely with Medical Staff, Clinical Case Managers, Nursing, Allied Health disciplines, hospital business/financial services, and other stakeholders.

- Require a master’s degree in social work (MSW) from a Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited university.
- Require a minimum of three (3) years of acute care hospital or other related healthcare experience; OR a minimum of two (2) years of acute care hospital case management experience.

- Prefer active Case Management Certification (CCM, ACM-SW, A-SWCM) or within one (1) year of hire and membership in relevant CM organization.
- Prefer demonstrated ability to manage high risk situations, multiple tasks and adjust priorities according to patient needs and department/hospital needs.
- Prefer strong ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written work, and when on-call to respond to issues, patient needs.
- Prefer strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with leaders, staff, patients, families, healthcare team, payers and external agencies.
- Prefer solid clinical social work assessment, critical thinking, problem-solving, interviewing, decision-making, negotiation, conflict management and organizational skills.