Licensed Medical Social Worker

Description The Hospice Social Worker will play a crucial role in our interdisciplinary team, providing emotional support, counseling, and advocacy services to hospice patients and their families. You will assess the psychosocial needs of patients and families, develop care plans, and collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure holistic care.

Key Responsibilities

Psychosocial Assessment: Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and practical needs. Counseling and Support: Provide counseling and emotional support to patients and families, helping them cope with the challenges of terminal illness, grief, and loss. Care Planning: Develop individualized care plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to address the psychosocial needs of patients and families.

Advocacy: Advocate for patients and families to ensure their needs are met within the healthcare system and community resources.

Education

Educate patients and families about end-of-life issues, advance directives, and available support services. Collaboration: Collaborate with other members of the interdisciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, chaplains, and volunteers, to provide holistic care to patients and families. Documentation: Maintain accurate and timely documentation of assessments, interventions, and care plans in compliance with regulatory standards.

Community Outreach: Participate in community outreach activities to raise awareness about hospice services and support networks. Qualifications:. Master of Social Work required. Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) preferred. Minimum of 1 year of experience in healthcare or hospice social work preferred. Strong understanding of psychosocial issues related to terminal illness, grief, and loss.

Excellent communication, counseling, and interpersonal skills. Ability to work effectively within an interdisciplinary team. Compassion, empathy, and a commitment to providing dignified end-of-life care. Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities The Hospice Social Worker position must exhibit the following competencies:

1. Critical Thinking: Synthesize complex and diverse information; collect and objectively weigh data; use experience,intuition, and critical thinking to complement data; and design effective processes and workflows.
2. Results Orientation: Actively involved in achieving or exceeding identified strategic patient census goals, patient service excellence, internal systems and processes, learning and growth initiatives, and financial health.
3. Integrity and Ethics: Treat others with respect and individuality regardless of their status or the situation; do what you say; be fair and equitable in all interactions; be a good steward of company resources; actively contribute toward the company’s success and goals; uphold organizational values.
4. Dependability: Maintain work behavior that invites trust and reliance; role model positive attendance and punctuality standards; ensure work responsibilities are completed correctly and are covered when absent; arrive at meetings and appointments prepared and on time.
5. Professionalism: Uphold high work standards that reflect the company’s purpose and goals; accept responsibility for own actions; react to challenges positively and calmly; provide leadership in maintaining highest technical and customer service standards for the benefit of the patients served.
6. Innovation: Meet challenges with creativity and resourcefulness; remain open to change, others ideas, and try new things; generate suggestions for improving work processes, services and products.
7. Oral Communication: Speak persuasively, with intention and thought, in both positive and negative situations; fully listen and get clarification; respond well to questions; demonstrate group presentation skills; participate in meetings without dominating others.
8. Written Communication: Write clearly and informatively; present numerical data effectively; read and interpret written Information; ensure adequate, effective communication with all team members to maintain company values, goals, and culture.
9. Quality: Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness; look for ways to improve and promote quality; monitor and self-correct own work processes and outcomes; apply feedback from others to Improve performance. Job Types: Contract, PRN Medical Specialty: Home Health Hospice & Palliative Medicine Experience: Social work: 1 year (Preferred) Hospice: 1 year (Preferred) Ability to Relocate: Lewisville, TX: Relocate before starting work (Required) Work Location: On the road