Job Details

Job Summary
Provides social work services, assesses and enhances the patient’s/family’s/significant other’s ability to cope with physical, emotional and environmental problems related to illness/convalescence and discharge plan. Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary healthcare team to establish a discharge plan for the patient

Job Description

Candidates are sought for the position of “NavSTAR Social Worker”. The Social Worker will work as a collaborative team member on the Navigation Services to Avoid Re-Hospitalization (NavSTAR) project, a clinical research study led by the Friends Research Institute and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The study will compare proactive Patient Navigation services to usual care for hospital patients at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals with opioid use disorder, a group at high risk of repeat hospitalization and negative outcomes. The social worker will work with discharged hospital patients in the community to resolve barriers to engaging in recommended follow-up medical and addiction care.

The Social Worker will meet with eligible study participants in the hospital and work with them for up to 3 months post-discharge, providing services including (but not limited to): helping to resolve personal barriers (e.g., lack of health insurance, transportation, etc.), providing motivational interventions to reduce ambivalence about treatment, making appointments on the patient’s behalf, accompanying patients to their initial medical and substance use treatment appointments, and advocating for patients. The Patient Navigator will be required to adhere to the research protocol, work with clinical and research staff, keep detailed records of services provided, and attend regular project meetings.

The work environment includes hospital- and office-based work, as well as work in the community (including patient home visits, visits in public places, and service agencies in the community). Reliable car transportation is required.

The Social Worker will also provide guidance and support to other members of the NavSTAR Patient Navigation team.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

1015 Walnut 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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