Job Description

Job Description

Tenet-AZ Region is seeking a Social Work Social Worker for a job in Goodyear, Arizona.

• Specialty: Social Worker
• Discipline: Social Work
• Duration: Ongoing
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours
• Employment Type: Staff

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Position Summary

The Social Worker is responsible to facilitate 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 patient’s resources and right to self-determination.  The individual in this position has overall responsibility for to assess the patient for transition needs including identifying and assessing patients at risk for readmission.  Conducts complex psycho-social assessment and intervention to promote timely throughput, safe discharge and prevent avoidable read admissions.

This position integrates national standards for case management scope of services including:
\n • Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention and patient satisfaction
\n • Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is the right sequence and at appropriate level of care 
\n • Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards and Tenet policy
\n • Education provided to physicians, patients, families and caregivers
\n • Leads a population of patients by service line and/or leads the team by being a resource to Tenet performance standards.   

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• Complex psycho-social transition planning assessment and reassessment and intervention
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• Assistance with adoptions, abuse and neglect cases, including assessment, intervention and referral as appropriate to local, state and /or federal agencies
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• Care coordination 
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• Implementation or oversight of implementation of the transition plan 
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• Leading and/or facilitating multi-disciplinary patient care conferences including Complex Case Review
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• Other related job tasks or responsibilities as assigned
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Tenet AZ Job ID #2503035808. Posted job title: Social Worker MSW- IRF

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