Social Worker, Hospice

About This Role

Join a collaborative team dedicated to providing exceptional care as a Clinical Social Worker for hospice patients. Assist patients and their families in coping with terminal diagnoses and illnesses by assessing social, spiritual, and emotional needs.

Responsibilities

• Assist the pre-hospice/hospice team in understanding significant social, spiritual, and emotional factors related to the patient's health.
• Participate as a member of the interdisciplinary team and in the development and review of the plan of care for all patients.
• Assess the social, spiritual, and emotional needs/factors to estimate the patient's and involved caregiver's capacity and potential to cope with problems of daily living and terminal diagnosis/illness.
• Prepare the patient to cope with changes and the chosen family to support the patient, including education on advance directives/advanced care planning.
• Utilize all available resources, such as chosen family, hospice, and community agencies, to assist the patient and chosen family to live better within the limitations of the illness.
• Support the bereavement program.
• Provide discharge planning related to change of level-of-care or community placement/location-of-care.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree from accredited school of Social Work or related field
• Valid license/registration of permit to practice in state(s) of agency operation if required
• At least one (1) year of professional social work experience (post-graduate) in a healthcare setting
• Licensed driver

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree from accredited school of Social Work or related field
• At least one (1) year of professional social work experience (post-graduate) in a healthcare setting is required; 2+ years preferred.

Nice to Have

• Medicare/Medicaid/Insurance specialty
• Experience or education in grief counseling
• Discharge planning experience

Benefits