You Belong Here.

At MultiCare, we strive to offer a true sense of belonging for all our employees. Across our health care network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers, opportunities for growth, safe workplaces, and flexible schedules. We are connected by our mission - partnering and healing for a healthy future - and dedicated to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

FTE: 1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Full Time, Exempt

Position Summary

Essential Functions

• Review new regulations and requirements for the PACE program and identify what new regulations impact the PACE Social Work department.
• Evaluate current processes, procedures and policies and implement change to adhere to new requirements as needed.
• Orient new PACE MSWs to Social Work department policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Create agenda and facilitate routine department meetings for training and regulatory oversight purposes
• Perform routine clinical audits for assessment and Plan of Care congruency and identify gaps. Educate individual MSWs for any identified opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate the PACE program MSW caseload quarterly and make changes to assignments based on acuity, location, and individual participant factors.
• Evaluate educational needs for the Social Work department and coordinate training.
• Develop relationships with service area adult family homes and assisted livings to facilitate communication and placement opportunities.
• Oversee disenrollment policy and procedure management by individual MSWs and provide support and guidance as needed. Report outcomes to PACE Compliance department.
• Meet regularly with Clinical Director to report on department functioning re: compliance to regulations and participant service expectations
• Provide clinical supervision to MSW staff seeking clinical licensure or other MSWs in the Care Continuum per senior leader request.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Social Work required
• Clinically licensed for Social Work in the state of WA
• Certificate for supervision within one year of hire
• Minimum five (5) years experience working with an Interdisciplinary Team, preferably seven (7).
• Experience with geriatrics or disabled adults for at least 5 years required

Our Values

As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness and Joy. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

Why MultiCare?

• Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our employees
• Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
• Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
• Employee-centric: Named Forbes Americas Best Employers by State for several years running
• Technology: "Most Wired" health care system 15 years in a row
• Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical and health services research in our communities
• Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains and forest at every turn

Pay and Benefit Expectations

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.

Position Type: Full time - Regular
Primary Shift: Day
Work Schedule: Day

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About MultiCare Health System

MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho. MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization. Eleven hospitals complete the organization: Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washingt...on — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South Puget Sound region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — and Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital. Our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness, serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other. MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.

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