Social Worker

Join Confidential Employer as a Social Worker in Wheeling, West Virginia. The Social Worker is responsible for the navigation and advocacy of identified members stratified relevant to their practice. These members require coordinated care and integration into multiple health and social systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifies members at risk for psychosocial needs related to health care status through direct communication with hospital social workers and discharge planners, network practitioners, The Health Plan staff, and The Health Plan members or supportive others.

• Completes contacts via telephone calls, as appropriate, to follow-up on referrals received, assesses for psychosocial needs and provides concrete or supportive interventions.

• Assists The Health Plan members and/or their supportive others, The Health Plan staff, or practitioners in making community resource referrals.  Also provides appropriate follow-up regarding the outcome of a referral.

• Performs research to identify appropriate community resources and maintains information of available resources to meet various member needs.

Work Schedule

• Full-Time position.

Work with Confidential Employer in Wheeling, West Virginia.