Dialysis Social Worker

Dialysis Social Worker

At Avera, you'll be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients.

Job Highlights:

• Plan, organize, and implement social work services for patients and families with complex needs.


• Facilitate quality care and education for patients and their families.


• Assess needs and develop plans with patients/families requiring intensive discharge planning.


• Maintain a current knowledge base of community agencies and resources to facilitate appropriate referrals.


• Work collaboratively with other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities:

• Interview patients and family members to gather information about home environment, family systems, health history, and patient personality traits.


• Evaluate data gathered in terms of the medical plan of treatment, available social service programs, financial counseling, and plan a pertinent therapy program that will provide maximum benefits and safety for each patient.


• Assist patients and families to understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations with emphasis on assisting patients to be medically compliant with care plans.


• Perform various services such as advising on social problems, arranging for discharge or post-operative care at home, assisting patients/families needing placement into assisted living or nursing homes, and working to alleviate anxiety and fears of patients and family members.


• Conduct supportive visits by interviewing patients and their family members to obtain information regarding their response to their diagnosis, including evaluation of strengths, coping skills, supports, characteristics of family, health history, and personality traits.


• Prepare and maintain patient documentation in EMR.


• Maintain department policies, procedures, objectives, and quality assurance program, safety, infection, and environmental control.


• Assist with data collection, analysis, and reporting as required by the hospital, administrative council, care teams, JCAHO, and other agencies.


• Conduct individual, marital, family, and group therapies as necessary.


• Coordinate care conferences as needed.


• Serve as the social work representative in multi-disciplinary team approach to patient care.


• Utilize research findings to improve outcomes and support quality of life for patients and their families.


• Work collaboratively with Case Management in providing coordinated services that facilitate continuity of care for patients.


• Work with emotional problems including anxieties and stress caused by illness, admission to hospital/nursing home, crisis situations, difficulties in coping with physical disabilities, fears related to helplessness and death, and providing educational materials.

Salary : $125,800 - $186,400