# Social Services Worker

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Salt Lake City, Utah
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $29.43 - $45.39
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Social Services Worker, you will gather psychosocial information to participate in developing and implementing a plan of care that provides high-quality care while being mindful of costs and resources.

You will work collaboratively with patients, families, healthcare providers, insurers, community resources, and other involved parties under direct clinical supervision.

**Responsibilities:**

- Organise and prioritise daily work by reviewing new, current, and discharging patient needs

- Gather psychosocial information for patients and caregivers

- Educate, communicate, and coordinate with multiple patient care teams and outside agencies as necessary

- Act as an advocate on behalf of patients and families to ensure effective communication with the multidisciplinary care team and outside agencies

- Provide initial intake, crisis intervention, and adjustment to illness counselling services as needed

- Identify patients at risk for potential avoidable delays, extended stay, readmission, financial or complex discharge needs

- Coordinate with care providers and leaders to reach optimal solutions

- Maintain an active role in denial prevention and proactively intervene with payers to prevent inpatient denials

- Coordinate the discharge planning process from patient admission to departure

- Provide support and education to patients, families, and staff members on Advance Directives

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution

- Current state licensure as a Social Services Worker

- Computer skills, including email, word processing, and spreadsheets

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience working in a healthcare setting

**Schedule:**

- Part-time, PRN schedule

- Days, weekdays, weekends, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

**Compensation:**

- $29.43 - $45.39 per hour, depending on experience

- $500 sign-on bonus for external applicants with 1+ year of experience

## Skills

### Required
- social work
- patient care
- communication
- coordination
- advocacy
- crisis intervention

### Nice to have
- experience working in a healthcare setting

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