Job Details: Licensed Master Social Worker

Description: Licensed Master Social Worker

1. MSW and licensure as a clinical social worker.
2. Three years hospital/healthcare field experience.
3. Working knowledge/experience in utilization management, managed care, and payor issues.
4. Experience in psychosocial and therapeutic counseling.
5. Strong interview, assessment, organizational, analytical, PC skills and problem solving skills.
6. Ability to identify appropriate community resources on assigned caseload and to work collaboratively with patients, families, multidisciplinary team and community agencies to achieve desired patient outcomes.
7. Possesses excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills in interactions with patients, families, physicians and health care team colleagues.
8. Exposure and/or experience in pre-acute and post-acute care, as well as community resources.
9. Ability to work independently as well as to develop collaborative relationships with physicians, families, patients, interdisciplinary team and other community agencies.
10. Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
11. Ability to work with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds; be flexible, open-minded and adaptable to change.
12. Demonstrates the ability to connect patients and families with necessary services, both inside and outside Memorial Hermann.
13. Maintains a current working knowledge of services available in the local community, particularly services available to patients with limited or non-existent payment resources. Must demonstrate patience and tact when dealing with patients, families and other staff.

Posting Date: May 7 08