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Elevate your career at Wood County Hospital, where you're not just a number – you're a vital part of a team making a real difference. Licensed Social Worker / Discharge Planning / Per Diem The Social Worker is responsible for leading and delivering comprehensive, patient-centered social work services that support safe, coordinated, and compliant care across the continuum. This position collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, hospital leadership, and community partners to promote patient advocacy, quality outcomes, regulatory compliance, and effective transitions of care.
The Social Woker is an onsite position.
Conduct comprehensive social work assessments, develop patient-centered plans of care, and provide care coordination, case management, crisis intervention, and short-term counseling across the continuum of care. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, physicians, hospital leadership, and community partners to individualize care plans, support safe transitions of care, and serve as a liaison between patients, staff, and leadership.
Develop, implement, and maintain social work standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory, accreditation, county, state, and federal requirement. Educate and support staff and physicians by identifying learning needs, coordinating and delivering social work–related education programs, and addressing competency, compliance, and knowledge gaps. Monitor, analyze, and improve social work processes and outcomes by collecting and reporting metrics, supporting quality improvement initiatives, assisting with surveys and inspections, and promoting patient advocacy, safety, and satisfaction.
Prepare, prevent, protect and respond to support our culture of safety. Works hours per week in accordance with offer letter or per attributes of position at transfer request. May be expected to work longer hours as necessary.
Other duties as assigned. Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Social Work License: Social Work license in State of Ohio
Two (2) years social work experience Certification: None Preferred
Master’s degree in Social Work License: None
Two (2) years social work in healthcare setting Certification: None PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 1. In an 8 to 12-hour workday, employee stands/walks (hours at one time): [] 0-2 [] 2-4 [X]4-6 [] 6-8 [] 8-12 2. In an 8 to 12-hour workday, employees sit (hours at one time/hours during the day): [] 0-2 [] 2-4 [X]4-6 [] 6-8 [] 8-12 3.
Employee lifts: [X] up to 10 [] 10-20 # [] 20-50 # [] over 50 # 4. Lifting as indicated in item 3 above is performed during the workday: [X] occasionally [] frequently [] continuously 5. Employee uses hands for repetitive: a.
Simple grasping: [X] yes [] no b. Pushing/pulling [X] yes [] no c. Fine manipulation [X] yes [] no 6.
Employee uses feet for repetitive movement in operating foot controls: [] yes [X] no 7. Employee must be able to: a. Bend [] frequently [X] occasionally [] not at all b.
Squat [] frequently [] occasionally [X] not at all c. Kneel [] frequently [] occasionally [X] not at all d. Climb [] frequently [] occasionally [X] not at all
About the role
Conduct comprehensive social work assessments, develop patient-centered plans of care, and provide care coordination, case management, crisis intervention, and short-term counseling across the continuum of care.