UR Thompson Health

Medical Social Worker II

UR Thompson Health  •  $30 - $42/hr  •  Canandaigua, NY (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Schedule: Per diem, weekend hours - on an as needed basis

Main Function:

  • Provides support and assistance to patients and their families in planning their needs and arranging services accordingly. Coordinates services. Facilitates discharge and access to services. Promotes continuity of service, providing a network to the Health System, the community and other organizations for the promotion of a continuum of integrated care.

Required Job Competencies:

  • Demonstrates skill and knowledge of advanced level social work practice.
  • Demonstrates the ability to work independently and exhibits flexibility in decision making and prioritizing assignments.
  • Demonstrates the ability to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with all members of the team and community agencies.
  • Participate in rounds to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to hospital care.
  • Shows ability to use social work theory and practice models to guide care plans of patients.
  • Demonstrates skill in proactively resolving problems, recommending, and implementing continuous quality improvement.
  • Be able to complete assessments for mental health when needed.
  • Shows ability to complete assessments for the Birthing Center as needed.
  • Demonstrates ability to complete safety planning with patients as needed.
  • Has knowledge of community resources and provides linkages and referrals to these resources as needed.

Qualifications:

  • LMSW preferred.
  • MSW with NY state licensure in 12 months accepted.

Education:

  • Requires master’s in social work from an accredited institution.

Experience:

  • Preferred experience in hospital social work
  • Preferred 2 years’ experience in the social work field.

Pay Range: $30.00 - $42.00/hour

Starting Pay: Based on experience

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UR Thompson Health

About UR Thompson Health

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An award-winning, nonprofit healthcare system, Thompson began as a small community hospital more than 100 years ago. Today, we are the premier healthcare provider for approximately 215,000 people in upstate New York’s greater Finger Lakes area. With more than 550 practitioners, over 1,700 associates and approximately 200 community volunteers, we offer a full range of healthcare services.

Our system has locations in Ontario, Livingston, Monroe and Wayne counties and includes:

• The 113-bed F.F. Thompson Hospital

• 24-hour skilled nursing care at the M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center, with an off-site medical adult day program

• Independent and enriched living apartments at Ferris Hills at West Lake and Clark Meadows

• Primary care services at 10 medical practices

• Family health and wellness services, including educational programs to promote healthy lifestyles

• The Sands Cancer Center, part of UR Medicine's Wilmot Cancer Institute

• A full range of rehabilitative services

• Eight lab draw stations

• A comprehensive breast imaging center

• Two urgent care centers

F.F. Thompson Hospital has designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Magnet® hospital and from the state as a Stroke Center. Quality designations from the Joint Commission include Certificates of Distinction in Knee Replacement and Hip Replacement, Orthopedic Rehabilitation Certification and Advanced Perinatal Certification. Thompson was also the first hospital in New York to be named a Center of Excellence in Hernia Surgery™ by the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC).

Thompson Health was named one of Becker Hospital Review's Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Also in 2018, the health system received “LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader” designation from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), which previously recognized the health system four times since 2014.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Canandaigua, New York
Year Founded
1904
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