Medical Social Worker B - Grade 18

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This title exists in Veterans Home At Oxford and has approximately 1 positions.

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Salary Information for Medical Social Worker A
Title Grade Hiring Rate/yr Job Rate/yr
Medical Social Worker A 15 $55,152 $70,317
Medical Social Worker B 18 $65,001 $82,656
Supvg Medical Social Worker 22 $79,928 $101,197

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Job Duties

MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER B: provides social case work services to individuals to assist them with their social, emotional and environmental difficulties which interfere with the acceptance of their medical condition or with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care:  participates as a member of the health team in carrying out the social aspects of the individual’s rehabilitation plan and in helping the individual and their families with their feelings and attitudes towards medical care; establishes a case work relationship with the individual for the purpose of helping to achieve a better adjustment between self, environment, illness, medical treatment and the ultimate rehabilitation; provides social case work treatment to help people increase their own capacity and confidence in their ability to handle problems and the right to determine solutions to problems; plans with the health team and with community agencies, to relate the individual’s medical care and rehabilitation program to their social situation prior to hospital discharge; assists in the education, research and student training programs at the hospital; records social information and keeps statistical data.  At the New York State Veterans’ Home plans and carries out, under general direction a social case work program designed to assist residents and their families in meeting the social problems occasioned by residence in the Home:  makes investigations of the social needs, physical condition, and economic status of applicants for admission to the Home; plans social, cultural, and recreational programs under guidance from a physician, arranges for medical services for residents at outside hospitals or clinics; communicates with relatives and tries to smooth out difficulties which arise between relatives and residents; assigns residents to roommates; counsels residents on their individual personal and health problems; prepares reports and maintains case records.

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