Social Work Senior Manager

Description

Plans, directs, organizes and supervises the operational activities of social work departments of significant size. Develops departmental plans, including business and operational priorities. Provides leadership to managers, supervisors and professional staff. Plans and implements programs to meet the psychosocial and emotional needs of patients and patients' families in a hospital setting. Develop and implement objectives, policies and procedures for specific department program/initiatives. Develops and teaches courses at the University level. A Master's of Social Work degree is necessary. Participates in the preparation of budget plans and man-hour reports and special reports. Considerable experience of professional social work is necessary and typically more than three years of directly related management experience. This classification requires licensure with the appropriate agency as required by JCAHO. This classification also requires registration, certification or licensure with the appropriate agency as identified on the Primary Source Verification Matrix. Employees in this classification supervise three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees may spend time performing many of the same duties as subordinate employees. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.