Hospice Social Worker (Easton, PA) - Per Diem

Ennoble Care • Easton, PA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Ennoble Care is seeking an experienced per diem Hospice Social Worker for its Easton, Pennsylvania region. The role provides emotional and practical support to patients and families during end-of-life care, helping ensure compassionate, personalized care. Ennoble Care provides mobile primary care, palliative care, and hospice services, with clinicians visiting patients at home and supporting people with chronic conditions and limited mobility.

The social worker conducts psychosocial assessments, contributes to patient care planning, monitors patients’ and families’ needs and responses to care, and coordinates with the interdisciplinary team and case managers. The position also includes maintaining clinical records, supporting discharge planning, consulting with health-team members, and helping patients and families use family and community resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work.
• At least one year of post-bachelor’s social work experience in a health care setting.
• Ability to reliably handle and maintain confidential information.
• Licensed driver with an insured automobile in good working order.
• Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing.

Nice To Haves

• Hospice experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a psychosocial assessment as part of the comprehensive assessment within five days of hospice admission, covering emotional, social, financial, and environmental resources and identifying psychosocial problems, interventions, and care-plan goals.
• Participate in interdisciplinary group (IDG) meetings and develop the patient’s plan of care.
• Observe, record, and report changes in patients’ emotional and social factors, care needs, and responses to treatment.
• Maintain and submit required written clinical records, including the initial evaluation, care plan, and daily notes.
• Evaluate patients’ and families’ responses to and the effectiveness of medical social work interventions.
• Confirm visit schedules with patients’ case managers weekly to coordinate visits by other staff.
• Participate in IDG and QAPI meetings and activities.
• When patients or families decline social work services, continue supporting the IDG in the patient’s care and monitor evolving patient and caregiver needs.
• Participate in discharge planning as needed.
• Pursue ongoing professional development through education, workshops, conferences, professional meetings, research, and reading.
• Assess patients’ and family members’ ability to cope with the patient’s dying.
• Consult with health-team members to help them understand social, emotional, and environmental factors related to patients’ health problems.
• Help patients use resources available through their families and communities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity for full-time employees.
• Paid time off for full-time employees.
• Paid office holidays for full-time employees.
• Paid sick time for all employees.
• 401(k) with up to 3% company match for all employees.
• Referral program for all employees.
• Payactiv pay-on-demand access for all employees.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level