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Job Location:
Concord, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 30 - 46
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Pay Range
$30.70 - $46.05Job Summary
Provides education and support services to patients families and staff. Also provides psychosocial assessment counseling crisis intervention and information/referral services on a consultation basis to patients and families. Works collaboratively with the Clinical Care Management team to effect positive patient and family outcomes and to ensure efficient utilization of resources.
Essential Functions
- Interviews patient/patients social support system to complete initiate psychosocial evaluation.
- Provides counseling/support/education to patient/patients social support system. Assists patients/patients social support system in coping with stress related to hospitalization disability chronic/terminal illness.
- Works collaboratively with the patients and patients social support system to establish and implement a plan of care with multidisciplinary team that meets the patients identified psychosocial needs.
- Serves as a resource to hospital staff and physicians regarding emotional social and psychosocial components of the patients illness and its effects on their social support system. Assists and facilitates the multidisciplinary team in understanding and integrating these aspects into the plan of care.
- Intervenes in crisis situations appropriately and effectively applying crisis intervention theory and skills
- Completes psychosocial assessments for the patients post hospital care for designated patients and their support system.
- Works with the Clinical Care Management team to assess and evaluate the patient/patients social support system for the appropriate level of care or environment setting to meet care needs across the continuum.
- Participates in multidisciplinary care planning meetings.
- Maintains current knowledge and researches availability of community agencies and community resources for social emotional or financial assistance.
- Provides information education to patients and their social support on community resources and options for post hospital care appropriate to the age of the patients served in collaboration with the Clinical Care Management team. Make referrals to community agencies as needed.
- Reports suspected cases of child & adult abuse/neglect/exploitation. Serves as liaison between hospital patients/patients social support system and Department of Social Services during evaluation/investigation.
- Identifies and records clinical psychosocial and financial barriers to a smooth transition across the healthcare continuum and assists in identifying and facilitating system improvements.
- Works with Clinical Care Management leadership to identify problems recommended solutions and works toward resolution.
- Develops and maintains accurate case records of each referred patient. Documents in medical record according to departmental standards.
Works in an office type setting extensive walking throughout the facility. Prolonged periods of sitting reviewing medical records documentation. Repetitive wrist motion and occasional lifting of 10-20 pounds. Requires frequent verbal and written communication in English. Intact sight and hearing with or without assistive devices is required. Must be able to handle a fast paced environmentmoving independently from one location to another.
Education Experience and Certifications
Our CommitmenttoYou:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs competitive compensation generous retirement offerings programs that invest in your career development and so much more so you can live fully at and away from work including:
Compensation
- Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications skills relevant experience and/or training
- Premium pay such as shift on call and more based on a teammates job
- Incentive pay for select positions
- Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical dental vision life andShort- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit integrated health system in the United States created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation health outcomes consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte North Carolina Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology neurosciences oncology pediatrics and rehabilitation as well as organ transplants burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1000 care locations and offers one of the nations largest graduate medical education programs with over 2000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.
Key Skills
- Motivational Interviewing
- Acute Care
- Crisis Intervention
- Behavioral Health
- Intake Experience
- Hospice Care
- Case Management
- Home Care
- Child Welfare
- Experience with Children
- Social Work
- Addiction Counseling
About Company
Proudly serving Wisconsin with 18 hospitals, over 150 clinics and 70 pharmacies across 30 communities. Choose Aurora Health Care for you and your family.
