AvoCare- MSW/BSW

Job Title: Social Worker (Palliative Care)

Purpose of the Position: Provides support to patients who would benefit from psychosocial and emotional

intervention. Offers necessary community resources coordination to patients and families who need

assistance with navigating the complex healthcare system.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and provide home visits to patients
• Adhere to HIPPA at all times
• Documents psycho-social assessment, patient status, and outcomes after each visit
• Ensure regulatory compliance with documentation requirements
• Assist the palliative team and/or directly facilitates patient-family meetings for goal setting and
  
  

care planning

• Provides education and emotional support to patients and families
• Provides community resources and referrals as needed to patients/caregivers
• Support patient and family through referral to hospice
• Participates in discharge planning
• Participates quality improvement initiatives
• Attends and actively participates in IDT meetings, staff meetings, trainings
• Performs other duties as assigned
  
  

Job Requirements

• Ability to travel per job requirements
• Thorough knowledge of community resources or desire/ability to obtain resources
• Knowledge of the psychosocial process in chronically and seriously ill patients and their families
• Capacity to relate and work well with others as a member of an interdisciplinary team; this must
  
  

include the ability to give and accept objective criticism constructively.

• Professional and courteous
  
  

Job Qualifications

• MSW or BSW degree in social work from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social
  
  

Work Education

• Minimum of 2 years experience as social worker in healthcare
• Preferred experience as a social worker in community based care ie. Home Health, Hospice,Palliative Care.