Social Worker- Full Time, Sign-On Bonus - $3,500.00

Description

Social Worker - Full Time (Covering Nashville and surrounding areas)

Location: Nashville Area 

Status: Full Time

Hours: 40/week, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SUMMARY

The Social Worker provides an assessment for and provision of psychosocial services and support to patients and their families.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Performs initial and ongoing assessment of the patient and family's psychosocial status and assists in accessing resources for social, financial, and community needs for adequately managing care and dealing with death.
2. Upon initial contact with the patient, reviews the services hospice is responsible for providing. Assists in obtaining informed consents.
3. Develops a plan of care that optimizes patient and family ability to cope with the psychosocial impact of illness and impending death.
4. Offers support, guidance and counseling in order to diminish stress and enhance emotional wellbeing.
5. Provides information about and/or refers to other community resources that are available to supplement psychosocial needs.
6. Describes additional Alive Hospice support services that may be used if appropriate, to ease care-giving demands (i.e., Patient Care Volunteer, Home Health Aide, Respite).
7. Educates patient and family about Advance Directives as a means of promoting self-determined life closure.
8. Assists patients and families to complete Advance Directives as needed.
9. Initiates opportunities for patient and family to discuss funeral planning and burial arrangements.
10. Participates in interdisciplinary care planning conference.
11. Collaborates with other team members about ongoing psychosocial issues and family dynamics in order to heighten the delivery of empathetic and emotionally supportive care.
12. Assesses family's bereavement needs throughout the duration of the patient's life and develops a bereavement plan of care for the family following the patient's death. This includes referral to Grief Support Services as necessary.
13. Facilitates bereavement support groups.
14. Conducts presentations to professional and community organizations about patient services, issues related to death and dying and bereavement support groups.
15. Attends department meetings.
16. Serves on department and agency committees.
17. Attends mandatory agency in-services as part of continuing education.
18. Completes all clinical documentation in a timely manner, per Alive Hospice policy.
19. Notifies team members of significant changes in patient status, using established agency procedures.
20. Completes required EMR documentation to reflect time worked and mileage accrued.

20. Follows all agency protocols, policies and procedures appropriately.

21. Participates in the after-hours on call program and is available to respond in situations when the need for psychosocial care arises.

22. Other duties may also be assigned.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, analyze, interpret and apply theories and concepts of professional clinical journals, texts and treatment plans. Ability to write documentation which accurately depicts the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care. Able to write policy and professional correspondence to various healthcare entities. Ability to calmly, maturely and effectively communicate, educate and build a rapport with patients, families, other healthcare professionals and community members.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as conversion, probability, simple statistical inference and algebra. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportion to practice, patient care, healthcare management problems. Ability to interpret laboratory and diagnostic data.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills. Ability to put into practice theoretical constructs of professional clinical discipline training and continuing education. Ability to determine status of patient/family and respond with appropriate interventions. able to prioritize and re prioritize based on patient need. Ability to provide appropriate crisis intervention. Ability to follow geographic and complex patient/family care directions. Ability to appropriately delegate, teach and monitor care of peers and practi