Join the Cleveland Clinic team, where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as the No. 4 hospital in the nation, according to the U.S. and World News Report. At Cleveland Clinic, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

As a Social Worker Caregiver in this role, you will work to support Women’s Health and Pediatrics at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Family Health Center. You will assists patients, families and groups in achieving improved health outcomes by reducing or removing obstacles that interfere with ability to use health resources effectively. You will also plan interventions based on care coordination, population health and patient-centered medical home philosophies.

The future caregiver is someone who:

• Has a Master’s degree in social work with an LSW and interest in pursuing LISW or LISW-S licensure.

• Has experience in healthcare, managed care or health related social work practice, with some leadership experience.

• Is self-directed, goal oriented and developed assessment skills to identify barriers to health and wellness.

• Is aware of internal and external community resources to mitigate barriers to health including food, financial, transportation and housing related needs.

• Possesses team building skills, is adaptable to change and supports process and quality improvement initiatives.

Social Workers are provided with monthly wellness activities to support caregiver health and minimize caregiver strain. You will be provided with opportunities to advance their professional development through advanced social work licensing, social work supervision groups and continuing education activities. Caregivers are asked to identify individual goals for advancement to support succession planning.

Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand-in-hand.

Responsibilities:

• Assesses psychosocial risk factors of patient, family, community or population related to level of functioning, appropriate and adequate support systems, ability to cope with adversity and reaction to illness.
• Develops plan of care for patient or populations based on current situation and assesses needs of the patient, caregiver and community or the population to be served.
• Participates in care coordination and transition management as patients and populations move across the healthcare continuum.
• Collaborates with post-acute providers to meet the needs of complex patients between ambulatory care visits.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Master's Degree in Social Work required.
• If hired prior to 1/1/2015 in lieu of Master’s degree, Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work with 10 years of Social Work experience will be accepted.

Certifications:

• Current state licensure as a Social Worker.
• Eligible licensure includes LSW, LISW, LISW-S or PC. Social Work or Case Management certification (CCM) within one year of eligibility.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required.

Complexity of Work:

• Requires critical thinking, decisive judgment, ability to integrate coordination of care and management of transitions for patients and populations.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and in a stressful environment.

Work Experience:

• Experience in ambulatory care, hospital patient care or related field.
• Knowledge of community resources and ability to coordinate care across transition points in the healthcare continuum.
• Excellent communication skills-verbal and written-to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and post-acute providers for optimal patient or population outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as with teams.

Physical Requirements:

• May require periods of standing, sitting and the ability to walk to various locations throughout the campus and enterprise as well as community settings for care planning and to attend meetings.
• Requires good visual and hearing acuity through normal corrected means.
• Requires manual dexterity to document in EHR and work with office equipment and other technology as required.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• None required