Mental Health Clinician - MSW jobs in Wyoming

ABOUT CAMPBELL COUNTY HEALTH

Campbell County Health (CCH) is the most comprehensive healthcare provider in the State of Wyoming. Certified as an Area Trauma Hospital, Campbell County Health includes Campbell County Memorial Hospital, an acute care, community hospital in Gillette; Campbell County Medical Group with nearly 20 clinics; The Legacy Living & Rehabilitation Center long-term care center and the Powder River Surgery Center. We are dedicated to excellence every day…

To be responsive to our employee’s needs we offer:

• Can accrue up to 192 hours per year (increases with tenure)
• Paid sick leave days
• 403(b) with employer match
• Employee Assistance program
• Employee and Spouse Occupational Health Program
• Early Childhood Center, discounted on-site childcare
• And more! Click here to learn more about our full benefits package

JOB SUMMARY

The MSW supports and maximizes the psychosocial functioning and adjustment of patients who are experiencing life changes and/or end-stage disease. These services are provided to ameliorate social and emotional stresses resulting from the interacting physical, social, and psychological concomitants of end-stage disease, including shortened life expectancy, altered lifestyle, and demands of a rigorous, time-consuming, and complex treatment regimen. MSW integrates care management, social services, discharge planning, and pre- and post-hospital services to ensure clinical efficacy and best outcomes for our patients. This position ensures the provision of quality health care along the continuum of care, decrease fragmentation, enhance the patient’s quality of life, efficiently use patient care resources, maximize cost containment opportunities, and improve successful post-hospitalization transition care. This position reports to the department head. MSW guides the integrated team in the functions of care coordination, facilitation of referrals, education, discharge planning, and advocacy.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Completes assessment of patient and family in timely manner. Specific attention is paid to readmitted, at risk and/or resource intense inpatients. Assessment includes patient/ family adaptation to illness/ disability and capacity to provide for patient care needs, and the patient’s needs for acute hospital level of care if the patient is admitted and identifies obstacles to treatment or discharge. Monitoring patient’s treatment/ clinical course to coordinate ongoing patient care.
• Evaluates the patient’s biopsychosocial assessment and counseling services for chronic disease patients and their families to promote quality of life.
• Works closely with interdisciplinary treatment teams, including physicians, nurses, and other disciplines, in planning for patient care during regular meetings to foster a coordinated approach to treatment. This includes treatment, anticipated discharge, and consideration of an alternative setting.
• Advocates on patient’s behalf in the renal setting and with appropriate local, state, and federal agencies.
• Manages caseload where multiple needs will be presented.
• Maintains social work recordings and statistics as applicable and participates in QAPI activities.
• Maintains required and concise documentation for patients including physical and functional limitations, psychosocial characteristics, plan of care to address post-hospital, treatment, and post treatment care needs, educational needs, and involvement in planning for care of patient and family, family/ social support systems, financial, economic, and discharged needs. Initiates referrals to disciplines with appropriate paperwork.
• Maintains a strong commitment to social work values and code of ethics.
• Facilitates and impacts process issues to avoid delays in patient care. Intervenes with appropriate individuals/departments about service delays that may impact quality of care and/or length of stay. Provides feedback to supervisors regarding delays to constantly improve the process.
• Functions as a liaison to external agencies including other dialysis centers, home health/ hospice, rehab/ skilled facilities, and assisted living/ long term care facilities.
• Develops and arranges discharge plans for patients discharged to home with home health, home infusion, acute/ subacute/ skilled nursing facility placement, hospice and other dialysis facilities and completes all necessary paperwork.
• Prepares patients and families for transition from hospital to home or alternative setting. Promotes empowerment of patients in self-management of disease processes. Demonstrates ability to use educational and counseling skills.
• Demonstrates commitment to work partners to help each other reach mutual goals and learn from each other. Demonstrates actions and behaviors that consistently promote trust, respect, positive attitude and promotes team morale.
• Seeks peer and supervisor consultation regarding problematic cases or cases demonstrating deviations from the plan of care.
• Conducts self in a professional manner, using Standards of Behavior as outlined by CCH.
• Maintains professional relationships with other departments, external organizations, service providers, physicians, and families of patients.
• Provides monthly education to Cardio-pulmonary Rehabilitation patients on grief and emotions.
• Must be free from governmental sanctions involving health care and/or financial practices
• Complies with the hospital's Corporate Compliance Program including the Code of Conduct, laws and regulations, and hospital policies and procedures. Works within the scope of the Wyoming Social Work Practice Act.
• Other duties as assigned. This list is non-exhaustive.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Education
  • Master’s degree in social work required.
• Experience
  • Three years of experience in the healthcare field is preferred.