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Job ID JR208600
Date posted 08/07/2026

Location: La Mesa, California
Facility: Grossmont Hospital
Shift: Day
Job Type: Regular

Responsibilities

Hours:

Shift Start Time: Variable
Shift End Time: Variable
AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift
Additional Shift Information:
Weekend Requirements: Not Specified
On-Call Required: No
Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $32.730 - $40.910 - $45.810

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

To provide documentation for discharge planning, psychosocial, treatment plan, UR review, and care coordination for patients. Intake phone calls and assessment patient for appropriate programs.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or other behavioral health related field.
AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

Hospital experience.
Case management experience.

Essential Functions

• Communication
• Documents all discharge planning and progress towards goals.
• Consult with team members in development of discharge plans.
• Maintains ongoing communication with multidisciplinary team members regarding patient status and follow-up.
• Attends rounds in major practice areas.
• Documents consultation, recommendations, interventions and treatment plans.

• Communicates needs for patient care conferences.

• Community Resource

• Refers to internal resources of hospital that can assist patients and families.
• Refers basic community resources.
• Assist with discharge planning for patient and family.

• Provides referrals for ongoing assistance to patient/family.

• Consultation and Support

• Consults and intervenes in crisis situations.
• Assists staff in de-escalating volatile situation.

• Participate in critical incident debriefings.

• Customer Service

• Assist Clinical staff with locating Community Resources.
• Assist with referrals to patient's family for ongoing assistance after leaving program.

• Assist with facilitating a timely discharge of patients.

• Patient Advocate

• Reports all mandatory protective concerns such as Elder Abuse, Child Abuse and Domestic Violence as required by law.
• Protects patient privacy by maintaining confidentiality.
• Keeps current with regulatory and legal requirements regarding patient privacy and confidentiality standards.
• Identifies bio-ethical dilemmas and initiates appropriate response.

• Assess discharge plan (may complete psychosocial assessments as appropriate per scope of practice and program). Identifies the key clinical issues such as grief and loss, adjustment to illness, psychiatric concerns with attention paid to the developmental milestones and life transitions that can impact functioning.

• Patient Care

• Practices appropriate boundary setting with clients.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity.
• Effective at crisis intervention and problem solving techniques and is a resource to others in these areas.
• Seeks resources when faced with unusual or new situations.
• Evaluates patient/family response to interventions.
• Revises care provided to patients/families.
• Orient patients, initiate, and support admissions process per policy and or department guidelines.

• Complete Utilization Review for admitting and ongoing treatment for patients. Document authorizations in electronic health record and per policy or department guideline.

• Staff Training

• Adequately orient new employees of rules and responsibilities.
• Evaluate abilities and efficiency.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Good customer service skills and experience working with diverse population.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.