When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Description:
Under clinical supervision by the Director of Case Management, responsible for providing social work and utilization review services to psychiatric patients and their families. Utilization management includes pre-certification, concurrent and discharge reviews, appeals and denials. Also responsible for assessing the patient's medically related psychosocial, emotional and financial needs and providing assistance to the patient and their family as those needs impinge on the patient's condition, treatment, recovery and safe transition from the hospital to another care environment or to home.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Identifies new admissions to the psychiatric adult unit and reviews for clinical appropriateness and treatment plan. Develops an individual plan of care based on the psych/social needs of the patient and develops a realistic discharge plan in collaboration with the patient/family/health care team. Implements a plan of care based on the needs of the patient, providing ongoing support and resources to patients and families. Effectively communicates with the interdisciplinary health care team discharge needs and obstacles affecting treatment and discharge disposition. Maintains credentials in clinical social work and attends continuing education programs. Provides support and consultation to other members of the health care team. Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE
Experience in crisis intervention desired. Clinical Social Worker experience, minimum one year in an inpatient psychiatric hospital setting preferred.
REQUIRED LICENSES Current Commonwealth of Massachusetts Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) license required.
Pay Range:
$40.00 - $51.74The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123 bed community hospital serving 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley . The hospital offers a wide range of acute care services to meet the needs of our growing patient population including inpatient and outpatient surgery in fully digitized computerized operating room suites, cardiology including echocardiography and a cardiac cath lab, comprehensive cancer services, orthopedics, nuclear medicine, laboratory, noninvasive vascular lab, joint replacement program and birth center.
Programs include the number one wound center in the nation, a primary stroke service, and Level III Trauma Center . Diagnostic imaging services for patients include MRI, CT, PET, and the PACS digital x-ray system. In addition, we are one of only three healthcare communities to be selected for the pilot Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative. Due to the dedication of our physicians, we are one of the first communities in Massachusetts to implement electronic health records, system-wide, for the safety of our patients.

The hospitals Non Invasive Vascular laboratory was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).
For the second year in a row, the American Association for Respiratory Care awarded the hospital its Quality Respiratory Care Recognition. The hospital had no ventilator acquired pneumonia cases during the last year.
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center is the only such center to receive full accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Massachusetts .
The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an organization that surveys and rates the performance of hospitals at least every three years. The Joint Commission Dedicated, good employees are one of your strengths. You have a lot to be proud of.