Social Worker - Home Health

About This Role

This role is for a dedicated Home Health Social Worker in Rome, GA, providing expert, patient-centered care through individual visits. The social worker will counsel individuals and families in crisis, assist them in obtaining various resources, and develop service plans to restore optimum social and health adjustment.

Responsibilities

• Guide and counsel individuals and families in crisis, including the unemployed, children in need of foster homes, and elderly people
• Assist clients in obtaining government funds, education, or treatment
• Secure and evaluate information such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to the client's situation and capacities
• Ask clients to explain problems including personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, and physical and mental impairments to determine the nature and degree of the problem
• Help patients and families through individual or group conferences regarding plans for meeting needs
• Aid clients in mobilizing inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning
• Help the client to modify attitudes and patterns of behavior by increasing understanding of self, personal problems, and the client's part in creating them
• Develop a service plan designed to restore the patient to optimum social and health adjustment within the patient's capacity

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Social Work
• Five plus years of clinical social work experience
• Valid and current Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Medical Social Worker license
• Ability to make psycho-social assessments and develop and implement viable care plans

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work
• Five plus years of clinical social work experience

Benefits