General Summary of Position
Job Summary:
MedStar Health is looking for a Social Work Care Manager Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) to join our Long-Term Care team at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. The ideal candidate will be a Licensed Bachelor of Social Work (LBSW) with excellent communication skills.
The Social Work Care Manager BSW LTC will process inquiries and admissions. Coordinates marketing and community relations matters.
Join one of the largest healthcare systems in the Baltimore-Washington metro region, also recognized as one of the "Healthiest Maryland Businesses". Apply today and learn how MedStar Health can be your next great career move!
Primary Duties:

• Actively (physical presence and verbal expressions) participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams focused on specific problems associated with resident care, goals, and approaches. Maintains cultural competency and assists other staff members to do the same. Serves as a leader in cultural competence for the facility. Seeks supervision and/or consultation on how to handle problems that may develop in an absence of cultural sensitivity on the part of other staff members. Maintains up-to-date required records, reports, statistics, and files. Plans to meet all deadlines; requests deadline info from Supervisor, as necessary. Tracks grievances and follows up promptly.

• Develops and maintains a community resource file, including agencies that offer voluntary services, and provides information and referrals. Utilize the resources in their file frequently to supplement their Unit's services, and update the file regularly to verify contact names, telephone numbers and email addresses. Develops relationships, discusses mutual expectations, and incorporates the family/associates in care planning. Explains the importance of fostering independence and supporting the resident's care plan, checks with the family/associates on their understanding. Develops and maintains therapeutic group activities such as family support groups. Assists the family through the grieving stage including acceptance of the post-admission process. Develops cultural competence with each resident and their family/associates. Develops social service component of the care plan and identifies specific problems, goals, and approaches in the social work portion of the care plan within 24 hours of the care plan meeting, and initiates and updates. Updates the care plan as needed.

• Helps residents cope with social and psychological aspects of their impairments and requests clinical social worker to attend to the resident when clinical issues are assessed; documents such requests in resident's chart and brings request to Supervisor's. Provides individuals with support as needed; evaluates the need for possible psychiatric intervention and works with geropsychiatric consultant to make appropriate referrals. Document in resident's chart such assessments, requests for psychiatric intervention, and resulting referrals; informs Supervisor of such interventions.

• Meets with residents and families/associates to complete a full social history and develop an initial assessment identifying medically related social and psychosocial needs. Demonstrates cultural competence. Participates in interdisciplinary care conference at time of admission and at prescribed intervals to review, develop and revise the plan of care. Make clear verbal expressions of assessments and updates on resident's specific problems, care, and approaches/interventions.

• Participates in meetings and serves on committees to represent the department and nursing center in community outreach efforts. Attend conferences, seminars, and workshops seeking further training in gerontology/geriatrics, ethics, cultural sensitivity, Medicare/Medicaid policies and computer technology. Provides information about Good Samaritan Nursing Center at outreach events. Identifies and requests the agency to purchase current literature, texts and professional journals that help to keep the Social Services Unit staff abreast of developments in social work with geriatric patients, care-giving issues, funding sources and social welfare policies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in social work or related field.

• 2 years related long-term-care experience.

• LBSW in the State of Maryland.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
This position has a hiring range of $24.70 - $41.23