Join Cottage Health as the Manager, Social Work. The Manager, Social Work is responsible for the leadership, direction, productivity, and clinical performance of the Medical Social Work Department for all Cottage Health facilities. Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Discharge planning and psych-social support.
• Ensures appropriate medical social work is based on protocols, evidence-based guidelines, physician plan of care and best practices to assure optimum medical outcomes.
• Partners with Case Management to ensure effective transition to the next level of care.
• Utilizes metrics to facilitate effective decision making.
• Manages with a 'Patients First' orientation.
• Fosters and maintains strong physician relationships.
• Continually cultivates and supports strong interdisciplinary teamwork.
• Ensures individual team member training, competency, and professional skill set development.
• Engages and promotes positive communication and interdisciplinary interaction.
• Successfully achieves departmental and organizational goals/objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

All job qualifications listed indicate the minimum level necessary to perform this job proficiently.

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Minimum: MSW degree from an accredited School of Social Work with field placement or job experience in hospital, health or mental health or related setting.

Preferred: MHA or similar

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Minimum: LCSW (CA State Licensed Clinical Social Worker)

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Minimum: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

YEARS OF RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

Minimum: Five years experience in a healthcare setting with 2 years administrative, supervisory or consultative responsibility in a social work agency.

Preferred: Greater than 5 years experience providing medical social work services in an acute care setting, and greater than 2 years of supervisory experience of medical social workers in an acute care setting.
Cottage Health is a leading acute care hospital system, located on the central coast of California, widely known for our superior patient care, innovation, medical research and education. Our health system operates primarily in Santa Barbara, Ca, since 1888, and consists of three acute care hospitals, a Rehabilitation Hospital, multiple clinics and a multi-site Urgent Care system. Our mission is to serve the central coast communities with excellence, integrity, and compassion. Every day we touch thousands of lives in many different ways, resolute in our mission to put patients first. We take pride in helping our patients get back to living their lives - in the places they love.

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