Swank Center for Memory Care and Geriatric Consultation is looking to hire a Social Worker.

Swank Center for Memory Care and Geriatric Consultation is located at 501 West 14th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. The Swank Center for Memory Care and Geriatric Consultation also has locations in Smyrna and Rehoboth, Delaware. Swank Center for Memory Care and Geriatric Consultation has been selected as a GUIDE model by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), enhancing its ability to provide comprehensive dementia treatment plans and provide necessary resources to caregivers.

As the Social Worker, you will join the Guide team in supporting the Community Educator, conducting home visits, and assisting patients and families in identifying social, emotional, and environmental needs. Provide social work services, including case management for patients in medical social services programs, including geriatric and disabled patients. This role aims to support an innovative healthcare model.

Work Hours:

• Monday through Friday day shift, with 24/7 requirement.
• Travel to patient homes and other clinical locations is required.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and a registered vehicle for travel.
• Offers opportunity for a hybrid blend of in-person and remote work, ad hoc per practice needs

Job Duties / Responsibilities:

As the Social Worker, you will be providing direct casework services, including emotional and social assessments, problem identification, and developing a service plan to assist patients and families in dealing with medical conditions. You will assess financial eligibility of families seeking financial, medical, or related services and provides referrals to alternative sources. You will be involved in individual and family counseling, coordinating public, private, or community medical, social, and therapy services. You will review patients' case history, evaluates their potential for further treatments, and prepares recommendations and referrals. It also prepares social histories, patient progress reports, evaluations, and summaries. Provide medical social work consultations, processes referrals, manages clinician waitlists, and completes patient safety assessments and intake. Actively participates in department and team meetings, representing the GUIDE Team at system and external levels. Ensures safety by adhering to departmental safety rules and practices, reporting unsafe activities, hazards, or safety violations to appropriate personnel. Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary for providing care appropriate to adult and geriatric patients, including knowledge of growth and development, obtaining, and interpreting information, and providing necessary care.

Compensation / Benefits:

• Full Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, etc.
• Two retirement planning offerings, including 403(b) with company contributions.
• Generous paid time off with annual roll-over and opportunities to cash out
• 12 week paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance
• Incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and great discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets, insurance and much more!
  

Education / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or related field from an accredited college/university required.
• Master’s degree in social work (LMSW) from an accredited graduate school of social work preferred.
• Licensed LCSW or LMSW as required by the state

Strengths and Qualities:

• You must possess experience in case management, which involves assessing, planning, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating options and services to meet an individual's human service needs. Experience in making recommendations, interpreting laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures, and writing narrative reports. Knowledge of medical social work principles, social factors affecting disease processes, case management practices, individual and family counseling methods, community agencies, and resources for educational, health, and social services. Interview clients, counsel individuals and families, coordinate case management for multidisciplinary treatment teams, provide training and guidance in resolving medical social work case management problems, and eliminate adverse factors impacting clients' health care and management processes. Be able to provide consultative services.

Whether a position can be supported for remote work will be assessed based on whether ChristianaCare is able to meet the business requirements of the proposed remote location.

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Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.