Career Center

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One
• Paid Days Off from Day One
• Student Loan Repayment Program

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00

The community you’ll be caring for:

• Located on a lush tropical campus, our flagship hospital, 1,368-bed AdventHealth Orlando
• serves as the major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South America
• AdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country
• We are already one of the busiest hospitals in the nation, providing service excellence to more than 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients each year

The role you’ll contribute:

Under the general supervision of the Director and/or Manager, in collaboration with the Case Manager, works with the patient/family, physicians, interdisciplinary team and external agencies. 

The Social Worker-MSW, working in both the acute and out-patient setting, utilizes expertise in patient/family assessment incorporating physical, psycho-social, environmental, spiritual, and financial factors to assess patients for barriers that interfere with the attainment of healthcare goals. Utilizes expertise in patient/family assessment incorporating physical, psycho-social, environmental, spiritual and financial factors to create a sound discharge plan to ensure proper patient placement across the healthcare continuum including transition to the next appropriate level of care. The Social Worker-MSW educates the health care team and physicians about psycho-social issues and identified patient/family problems as well as recommends strategies to address these issues.   

Actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all

The value you’ll bring to the team:

· Advocates for the patient in obtaining and negotiating resources to meet patient needs, as necessary

· Interviews patients/families to complete a thorough and timely psycho-social assessment and to evaluate current support systems available to the patient and family.  Completes assessments, per department standards, based upon information from multiple sources including the patient, family, nursing staff and physician as well as information discussed in multi-disciplinary rounds. Documented assessments confirm an understanding of the patient’s functional status and psycho-social needs.

· Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to address barriers that may impact or delay the patient’s discharge plan. Works in collaboration with hospital and community agencies to obtain needed services and resources for patients/families/caregivers.

· Performs discharge planning/post-acute care coordination to include:

o  Acute rehabilitation placements

o  New nursing home or skilled nursing placement

o  Psychiatric or substance abuse placements

o  Cases involving active psychiatric conditions

o  Acute care transfers

o  Abuse cases

o  Hospice referrals and placements

o  Legal issues: adoptions and guardianship cases in collaboration with legal counsel

o  Specialty program participation (Transplants)

o  Assistance with Advance Directives, as necessary

o  Community resource needs

o  Financial issues/funding for post-acute needs/identifying possible MA eligibility cases with appropriate referral

The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

· Master’s in Social Work