What are the responsibilities and job description for the Masters Social Worker position at PACE?
The Master’s Social Worker (MSW) at the PACE Your LIFE Program contributes the profession’s unique psychosocial perspective to the interdisciplinary evaluation, assessment, plan of care, ongoing services, and disenrollment processes that occur once the PACE participants begin the intake process and continue with ongoing services. The MSW provides basic casework and consultation for the PACE participants, as well as facilitates communication between participants, their family and the PACE Interdisciplinary Team (IDT). The MSW ensures efficient and appropriate coordination of care in order to optimize the health status and quality of life of PACE participants. The MSW’s interventions may include participant and family education, assessment and counseling, mobilizing resources, addressing mental health needs, ongoing case management, and advocacy to ensure participants’ needs are addressed and disenrollment procedures are followed.