A Family, School, or General Social Worker provides specialized assistance to vulnerable families and children. Intervenes in crisis situations; evaluates individual and family needs, helps clients get access to health care, mental health care or social services such as housing assistance. Advocates for clients and provides follow up visits. May work with teachers, parents and school administrators to help students improve academically and deal with social issues such as bullying.
💼 EmblemHealth 📅    13 hours ago Post Date Apply for Job Recommend to a Friend Sign Up for Job Alerts Summary of Position Provide behavioral health services for the chronically ill or at-risk population in a community-based setting with an overall objective to help member's live fuller and more meaningful lives. Manage members with behavioral health, substance abuse, and/or psychosocial conditions/issues. Consult with all members of the team on behavioral health, substance abuse and/or psychosocial issues. Facilitate member adoption of strategies to promote physician-recommended behavior change. Help members improve health outcomes with feedback from the medical team and EmblemHealth's Case Management team as needed. Principal Accountabilities Perform member outreach - virtually, telephonically and in-person, individual needs assessment, education on early warning signs of disease prevention, and identifying members in potential need of care. Provide support services as well as social services supports from other organizations (community based and otherwise). Provide assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation to ensure member receives care management services and support required to meet psychosocial, educational and health care needs. Assist members with the coordination of services from various settings as appropriate including supporting discharge from acute setting to home and acute setting to alternate settings. Provide care coordination throughout the continuum of care by including the member, member's family, and providers in the process. Support activities of other Neighborhood Care team members. Participate in all other projects relating to community clinical programming as identified by Regional Manager, AVP in Neighborhood Care and Medical Management Leaders. Participate as part of the Quality and Customer Experience team by providing feedback and ideas to continually improve clinical metrics and other customer experience. Other duties/responsibilities as directed, assigned, or required. Qualifications Master's in social work (LMSW) 4-6 years' care management and/or managed care experience (Required) Knowledge of community resources access (Required) Prior health plan experience (Preferred) Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal) (Required) Detail oriented, with strong organizational and problem-solving skills (Required) Strong motivational interviewing skills (Preferred) Strong working knowledge of MS Office (word processing, database/spreadsheet, presentation, e-mail) (Required) Bilingual English/Spanish or English/Creole (Preferred)
