Department/Unit:
Care Management/Social Work
Work Shift:
Day (United States of America)
Salary Range:
$46,215.00 - $60,080.00Assists Case Management and Social Work staff with setting up patients’ discharge needs.
Principal Position Responsibilities
1. Assists with obtaining Durable Medical Equipment (DME), including but not limited to rolling walkers, commodes, wheelchairs, quad canes and hospital beds.
2. Make basic transportation arrangements (MAS, Rehab, back transfer, cabs) once discharge planner has documented need.
3. Maintains patient confidentiality of all communications and documents as required by Hospital policy.
4. Rounds frequently on assigned units.
5. Keeps Case Managers and Social Workers apprised of status of discharge plans, documents the status of activities and communications, and maintains adequate reporting information in EPIC.
6. Enters data into EPIC in a timely fashion to facilitate discharge plans.
7. Maintains skills needed for performance of duties.
8. Utilizes available educational opportunities for improving skills.
9. Attends required in house in-services.
10. Projects positive image of the department and hospital.
11. Assist in the delivery of regulatory documents to patients
Mission, Core Values and Service Excellence
1. Contributes to the creation of a compassionate and caring environment for patients, families, and colleagues through displays of kindness and active listening. Recognizes and appreciates that each employee’s work is valuable and contributes to the success of the Mission.
2. Demonstrates excellence in daily work. Willing to actively participate in performance and quality improvement activities and to work towards enhancing customer/patient satisfaction.
3. Exhibits positive service excellence skills to patients, visitors, and coworkers by greeting others in a friendly manner, keeping customers/patients/colleagues informed about progress, delays, and changes.
4. Demonstrates effective teamwork by interacting in a positive manner with colleagues and creating a collaborative work environment. Initiates open communication, conveys positive intent, offers assistance.
5. Contributes to a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, colleagues by following established procedures and protocols.
6. Demonstrates stewardship by thoughtful and responsible use of resources including maintaining a clean and hospitable environment, starting work on time, displaying a consciousness regarding costs, supplies and department finances.
7. Demonstrates respect for individual differences of each person by acknowledging the essence of each person, appreciating, and responding to unique, spiritual, personal, and cultural backgrounds of patients, families, and colleagues.
Qualifications and Ideal Characteristics
1. HS diploma or equivalent and 3-5 years’ experience.
2. Proficient with computer/software applications.
3. Strong written and verbal communication skills and organizational skills.
4. Must be able to multi-task and prioritize.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to probe, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and speak and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System!
Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.
This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:
Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.
Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York’s only academic medical center, is one of the Capital Region’s largest private employers with more than 9,000 employees. Albany Medical Center provides the highest level of patient care across disciplines, while receiving regional, national, and international recognition for high standards in patient care, education, and biomedical research.
The 766-bed Albany Medical Center offers access to the latest medical services and technological innovations and includes one of the busiest emergency rooms and trauma centers in New York, a children’s hospital and dedicated pediatric emergency room, intensive care units for adults and children, and organ transplant services. Albany Medical College graduates more than 200 medical doctors each year, as well as PAs, CRNAs, biomedical scientists, and bioethicists. Albany Medical College operates a biomedical research enterprise and the region’s largest physician practice with more than 500 doctors.
Albany Medical Center, along with Albany Medical College, is a partner in the Albany Med Health System, the largest and only regionally governed, not-for-profit health system serving northeastern New York and western New England.
