Inpatient Care Manager-MSW

Number of Positions In Requisition

1

Job Details

The Inpatient Care Manager-MSW applies expertise to coordinate comprehensive care for a designated patient population across the continuum of care. This role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualized care plans while ensuring safe and timely discharge planning. The Inpatient Care Manager - MSW serves as a clinician, care manager, and educator, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to achieve high-quality, cost-effective outcomes. Additionally, the individual actively manages resources to minimize unnecessary utilization and supports performance improvement initiatives to enhance patient care and system efficiency.

Job Description

Summary
The Inpatient Care Manager-MSW applies expertise to coordinate comprehensive care for a designated patient population across the continuum of care. This role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualized care plans while ensuring safe and timely discharge planning. The Inpatient Care Manager - MSW serves as a clinician, care manager, and educator, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to achieve high-quality, cost-effective outcomes. Additionally, the individual actively manages resources to minimize unnecessary utilization and supports performance improvement initiatives to enhance patient care and system efficiency.

Job Duties

• Conducts comprehensive assessments at the patient entry to determine anticipated length of stay, discharge needs, and resources; develops and implements individualized plans of care and transition plans in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Coordinates safe and timely discharge planning, including securing post-acute authorizations, arranging transportation, homecare, and facility placements, and facilitating transfers when needed.
• Monitors and manages patient progress through daily review, participating in multidisciplinary rounds, initiative-taking identification and resolution of barriers to discharge.
• Advocates for patients and families, addresses clinical, educational, and psychosocial needs while ensuring their preferences are reflected throughout the care continuum.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary healthcare teams and provides the patient and/or family in the development and implementation of plans. Coordinates team and/or family conferences when necessary to facilitate patient’s care progression. Refers patient/significant other to community-based services/resources to meet patient’s continuum of care needs.
• Develops and maintains knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, and key payer benefits and reimbursement methodologies.
• Assists patients/families with self-management through education via in person visits, telephonic and electronic engagement and encourages and supports patient adherence to their discharge care plans.
• Communicates effectively with physicians, patients, families, and team members to facilitate referrals, authorizations, and resolution of medical necessity issues and coordination of transition and discharge planning.
• When necessary, initiates medical assistance application in a timely manner, as needed, or ensure medical assistance application has been initiated by identified external agencies, as needed. Follows up with identified external service regarding application.
• Maintains current knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, and other payer systems, including benefits, reimbursement methodologies, and conditions of participation.
• Delivers required regulatory notices, within established times (as applicable to facility).

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work.
• Less than 1 year experience In an MSW internship program.
• Ability to incorporate strategies for interacting with persons from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to set priorities to coordinate care plans efficiently
• Knowledge of computer applications and analytical tools.
• Proven leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with EHRs: EPIC.
• ACM - Accredited Case Manager - American Case Management Association within 3 Years or
• CCM - Certified Case Manager - Commission for Case Manager Certification within 3 Years

Additional Qualifications

• Colleague's working in the state of New Jersey only, are required to hold one of the following licenses upon hire: LSW or LCSW.

Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.

Primary Location Address

111 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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