We are looking for a PRN Hospice Social Worker in our Sandusky and surrounding areas!!

**Join the team, make a difference!**

*MUST BE A LICENSED SOCIAL WORKER!!

Buckeye Hospice is a preeminent Hospice provider dedicated to the highest quality of standards in patient care. At Buckeye Hospice, we follow a family approach with our patients and for our employees who serve them. Our mission is to affirm and celebrate the significance of human life and recognize dying as a natural process. We carry out our mission by providing superior health, social, emotional, and spiritual services to our patients and their loved ones. We strive to enhance the quality of life of our patients with peace and dignity, while providing support for their families.

The Hospice Social Worker is responsible for managing all aspects of the provision of patient social services. Establishes, implements, and evaluates goals and objectives for social services to meet and promote the standards of quality and contribute to the organization’s mission and philosophy.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient social service care to patients and families/caregivers.
• Directs the implementation of improved work methods and procedures to ensure social services are delivered in accordance with policy.
• Supervises the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of social service clinical care by SW members of the hospice interdisciplinary team.
• Provides leadership in strategic planning including identifying opportunities for additional or improved services to address unmet customer needs.
• Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of the field of social work and shares information with appropriate organization personnel, as needed.
• Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of community resources and assists referral sources in accessing community resources when patients are discharged or level of care settings change.
• Assists with evaluating quality assessment performance improvement (QAPI) plans and participates in QAPI teams and activities, as needed.

Skills

• Proven work experience as a social worker
• Working knowledge of social theories and practices
• Social perceptiveness and empathy
• Ability to build and maintain professional helping relationships
• Ability to relate and communicate with diverse population and groups
• Resilience along with ability to assess situations
• Willing to submit to background checks
• MSW degree in social work (MSW) preferred