About this role
Job Summary: Join our close-knit interdisciplinary team dedicated to helping older adults maintain their health, independence, and quality of life. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by providing comprehensive psychosocial support while collaborating closely with physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing, and other healthcare professionals in a highly team-oriented environment.
Job Description: The Specialist Social Worker provides comprehensive case management, care coordination, patient education, advocacy, and psychosocial support for older adults and their families. As a vital member of the Geriatric Medicine team, this role participates in comprehensive consultative appointments alongside medical providers, helping identify barriers to care, assess psychosocial needs, connect patients with community resources, and develop individualized care plans that support successful aging. The social worker also provides one-on-one patient appointments as clinically indicated and available.
Schedule: Monday - Thursday/32 hours
Key Responsibilities
• Provide case management and care coordination for patients and families requiring educational, social, emotional, and advocacy services. • Participate as a critical member of the interdisciplinary team during comprehensive geriatric consultative appointments, collaborating with medical staff to assess patient needs, develop recommendations, and support successful care planning. • Conduct individual patient and family appointments to address psychosocial concerns, care planning, resource navigation, and ongoing support. • Research, develop, and deliver educational materials and resources tailored to the learning styles, health literacy, and unique needs of the older adult population and their caregivers. • Assist patients and families in developing strong support systems by identifying needs and connecting them with appropriate community programs, agencies, and services. • Advocate for patients and families to help overcome barriers to care and improve access to needed services. • Work collaboratively with providers, clinical staff, payers, community organizations, and external partners to identify patient needs, strengthen community relationships, coordinate services, and enhance clinical outcomes. • Document assessments, interventions, referrals, and care coordination activities in accordance with organizational and regulatory standards. • Serve as a resource to the healthcare team regarding psychosocial issues impacting patient care and discharge planning.
Why Join Our Team? Our Geriatric Medicine practice is a small, supportive, and collaborative team where every member plays an essential role in delivering exceptional patient care. The social worker is an integral part of our comprehensive assessment model, working side-by-side with medical providers during consultative visits to ensure patients receive holistic, patient-centered care. If you enjoy building meaningful relationships with patients, collaborating across disciplines, and making a lasting impact on the lives of older adults and their families, we'd love to hear from you.
Compensation Information: $27.08 - $47.39 USD Hourly
Compensation Information: $0.00 - $0.00
The hourly pay range shown represents the base pay range for this position. Individual pay is determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, and market considerations. In addition to base pay, eligible team members may earn additional compensation through shift, weekend, holiday, on-call, and other applicable differentials. We are proud to offer a competitive total rewards package designed to recognize our caregivers and support them in delivering exceptional care to the communities we serve.
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 32
Job Exempt: No
Benefits:
Supporting all aspects of our employees’ wellness – physical, emotional and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future.
Physical Wellness:
• We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs.
• Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents.
• A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.
Emotional Wellness: When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.
Financial Wellness:
• Access the wages you’ve already earned before payday with Payactiv, giving you greater flexibility over your finances.
• Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career.
• We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.
• Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident.
• We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for a period of time.
Career Mobility: Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development. We know that our employees are our most valuable resource – they’re how we grow our business and care for our community.
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 .