Social Worker (MSW) - Full Time

Monday through Friday with on-call rotation

Harbor Hospice provides excellent benefits, generous paid time off, flexible schedules and a great work culture.

Harbor Hospice is a community-based non-profit hospice serving a five-county area along the lakeshore of West Michigan. Since our founding in 1982 our mission has been to provide high quality end of life care, serving all with ’empathy, expertise and excellence’.

Harbor Hospice believes that all persons are entitled to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or marital status as required by state and federal law. Harbor Hospice embraces diversity and inclusion through our six pillars of success – growth, quality, service, our people, finances and community.

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that include medical, dental and vision plans, generous paid time off, a matching 403b, and tuition assistance. Comprehensive orientation, training and resources provided

Qualifications: Coordinates social work services for the home care program in community based care setting. Provides supportive counseling, anticipatory guidance and assistance to patients and their families with personal, psychosocial, psychoeducation, and environmental difficulties related to the patient’s illness.

• Is a graduate of a Master’s program in social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and holds current certification in the State of Michigan or has a Master’s degree in psychology, sociology, counseling, human services or other field related to Social Work who would be supervised by an LMSW.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES (other duties may be assigned)

• Knowledge of the social services concept and philosophy.
• Assesses the psychosocial status of patients/families/caregivers related to the patient’s illness and environment in the patient’s identified residence.
• Assesses risk and intervenes clinically to identify potential for complicated grief and explores anticipatory bereavement related to possible death and multiple aspects of loss and adaption along the continuum of illness.
• Plans, develops and carries out interventions based on the psychosocial assessment.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of planned interventions and Manages IDT patient plan of care for palliative care consultation service.
• Provides strength based, person centered and family centered, comprehensive psychosocial assessment.
• Provides psychosocial interventions with the highest integrity related to cultural appropriateness and developmental stage along the continuum of illness inlcuding * Supportive Counseling
• Psychoeducation
• Anticipatory guidance
• Advocacy
• Facilitation of family meetings
• Linkage to community resources
• Non-pharmacological pain and symptom management
• Provides clinical guidance and consultation to interdisciplinary primary team, including social workers and case managers, prompting continuity of care and primary palliative care as well as safe and comprehensive care coordination and discharge planning as indicated.
• Formulates hypotheses about nature and etiology of problems.
• Negotiates with patient/family/caregiver to establish goals.
• Manages and enhances community partnerships. Facilitates educational opportunities with focus on primary palliative care for clinical and ancillary providers.
• Participates in System Improvement and Quality Initiatives.
• Identifies services, clinics, etc. needing enhanced palliative care and formulates strategies for addressing this need. Identifies and addresses disparity within and barriers to effective social services care.
• Follows standard precautions/infection control policies.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or scheduled form.

Benefit Conditions:

• Waiting period may apply

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to $32.25 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift

Work Location: On the road