What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Work position at Tenet Desert?
Job Title: Social Work Social Worker
Tenet Desert is seeking a dedicated Social Work Social Worker to join our team in Palm Springs, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Social Worker
- Discipline: Social Work
- Duration: Ongoing
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours
- Employment Type: Staff
We are a 385-bed acute-care hospital classified as a stroke receiving center and level 2 trauma facility with an innovative, patient-centered and evidence-based Rehabilitation Services Department. Our compassionate team provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care rehabilitation, joint replacement & spinal surgery, neurosurgery, ICU, Telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as well as outpatient therapy, hand and lymphedema clinics.
Responsibilities:
- Provide screening and specialized psychosocial support to patients and families experiencing severe or life-threatening injuries.
- Facilitate care along the continuum by coordinating internal and external resources, offering crisis intervention and counseling, and ensuring that patients' immediate and long-term needs are effectively addressed.
- Balance each patient's right to self-determination with the ethical and regulatory standards of the hospital and state licensing boards.
- Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention, and patient satisfaction in a high-acuity trauma environment.
- Care Coordination demonstrating throughput efficiency while ensuring care is sequenced and provided at the appropriate level, in close collaboration with the trauma team.
- Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards and Tenet policy.
- Providing specialized education to physicians, patients, families, and caregivers on available resources, trauma-informed care, and post-acute needs.
- Precepts new staff members and acts as resource to all staff.
- Participates in department initiatives, committees, and/or major projects that enhance psychosocial and discharge planning for trauma patients.
