Home Health and Hospice Social Worker - Full Time

Summary Of Position

Provides psychosocial assessments and interventions to patients/families enrolled in Home Health & Hospice programs, utilizing established standards and practice, ensuring safe and effective intervention. Provides interventions directed toward management of terminal illness; reaction/adjustment to illness; strengthening family/support systems; conflict resolution related to chronicity of illness; death and dying intervention to minimize effect of client/family grieving process and bereavement.

Qualifications

Education:

• Masters in Social Work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work
  
  

Experience

• Minimum two years of social work experience as a clinical social worker preferred
• Previous Home Health and/or Hospice experience preferred
  
  

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Proficient computer skills as are required to document, communicate and enter information into the electronic medical records system.
• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate with various departments in and outside of the Barton Health System in order to provide consistently exceptional patient care.
• Attention to detail, meticulous development and maintenance of regulatory paperwork.
  
  

Certifications/Licensure

• Current CPR/BLS certification by the American Heart Association (BLS for the Healthcare Provider) or ability to obtain prior to start date
• Current California Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW) license
• Current Nevada Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW), or able to obtain within 6 months
• Valid California or Nevada Driver's license (depending on state of employee's residence) or ability to obtain prior to start date
• Current vehicle insurance
  
  

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, stand, sit, and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfer patients.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
  
  

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Routine Hospital/Healthcare & Office/Administrative conditions.
• Contact with patients and guests under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases.
• Exposure to infections and contagious disease.
• Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and waste.
• Subject to hazards of flammable and explosive gases.
• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations, including the handling of emergency or crisis situations.
• Subject to pressure due to irregular hours, frequent interruptions and stressful situations due to multiple demands.
• Occasional travel to various health system locations.
  
  

Essential Functions

• Provides consistently exceptional care at all times.
• In collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team. assesses, develops, implements, plans, and evaluates care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team, in accordance with CMS, State regulations and The Joint Commission guidelines for Home Health and Hospice.
• Performs comprehensive social service assessment on all identified patients gathering all relevant data to determine the Social Service needs of the patients.
• Provides social service intervention, evaluates outcomes, consults with others as required and adjusts care plan as necessary to ensure optimal outcome.
• Assists with client in interventions to alleviate social or environmental barriers
• Evaluates resident's response to intervention and writes a progress notes which reflect client's progress towards states goals. Revises care plan based on resident response to treatment/ therapy.
• Provides education and support to assist clients and families to understand, accept and follow through with medical recommendations, deal with illness or bereavement.
• Interfaces with public and community agencies identified as potential resources for patients.
• Is a member of the bereavement team and provides short term crisis intervention.
• Utilizes all internal and external resources and referrals to assist in meeting the unique needs of the client. Ensures that community resource materials are current.
• Responds to the needs of the department by performing other duties, as necessary.