Medical Social Worker Reliant Medical Group

Medical Social Worker

Opportunities with Reliant Medical Group. When you join Reliant, you'll be part of a community-based, multi-specialty, physician-led medical group. Everyone works collaboratively on a common purpose: improving the quality, cost and experience of health care. With the resources of a global health organization - Optum - behind us, we're at the forefront of value-based care. Supported by a patient-centric business model - integrated care teams focus on the best patient care, rather than volume. Here, you'll contribute to an exceptional patient experience. Discover a place where you can help shape the future of health care and do your life's best work.(sm)

Reliant Medical Group, Part of Optum

Position: Medical Social Worker

Department: Care Management

Hours: Full-time; Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Hybrid: In-office and remote work element

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assists patients using a "coaching" method rather than "teaching" to improve their health behavior to attain health-related goals
• Facilitates patient and caregiver access to care and community resources relevant to patient's needs
• Assists patients/families with issues related to insurance, such as lack of coverage (or adequate coverage), medication affordability, and benefits-related issues
• Provides counseling and psychosocial assessment of adjustment issues, support systems, caregiver issues, and crisis intervention
• May provide clinical services to patients and families in the form of short-term counseling (< 3 visits), psychological assessments, and individual and group treatment primarily for behavioral medicine symptoms
• Works in collaboration with assigned RN partner to address problems and/or concerns about plan of care, as needed, and intervenes regarding adherence issues

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited school of social work
• Master's Degree and active, unrestricted licensure as a LCSW/LICSW in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• CPR Certification or able to obtain within 30 days of employment
• Current Massachusetts driver's license
• Proficient in computer use, the Internet and health information technology
• Ability to travel frequently to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, patient's homes and other sites where patients received care as needed
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of practice in a medical setting
• Proven excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, with a flexible and creative approach to problem solving
• Demonstrates successfully able to work independently as well as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Demonstrates possesses good clinical judgment and decision-making skills

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience, which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description, may be substituted for the above requirements.

Physical Requirement:

• Physical health sufficient to meet the ergonomic standards and demands of the position

The Organization reserves the right to modify position responsibilities at any time, due to business necessity.

Careers at OptumCare. We're on a mission to change the face of health care. As the largest health and wellness business in the US, we help 58 million people navigate the health care system, finance their health care needs and achieve their health and well-being goals. Fortunately, we have a team of the best and brightest minds on the planet to make it happen. Together we're creating the most innovative ideas and comprehensive strategies to help heal the health care system and create a brighter future for us all. Join us and learn why there is no better place to do your life's best work.(sm)

OptumCare is committed to creating an environment where physicians focus on what they do best: care for their patients. To do so, OptumCare provides administrative and business support services to both owned and affiliated medical practices which are part of OptumCare. Each medical practice part and their physician employees have complete authority with regards to all medical decision-making and patient care. OptumCare's support services do not interfere with or control the practice of medicine by the medical practices or any of their physicians.

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