Hospice Social Worker (Dayton, OH)
Ennoble Care•Dayton, OH
About The Position
Ennoble Care is seeking an experienced, per diem Hospice Social Worker to serve patients in the Dayton, Ohio region and surrounding areas. The role provides medical social work support as part of hospice care, including assessing patients’ and families’ psychosocial needs, contributing to individualized care planning, coordinating with the care team, and helping patients and families use family and community resources.
Requirements
- Must be a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW).
- Must have a master’s degree in social work from a graduate school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
- At least one year of post-master’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 preferred.
Responsibilities
- Conduct a psychosocial assessment as part of the comprehensive assessment within five days of hospice admission, evaluating emotional, social, financial, and environmental resources and identifying psychosocial problems, interventions, and goals for the patient’s plan of care.
- 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 affected by illness, care needs, and response to treatment.
- Maintain and submit 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 a patient or family declines Social Work services, continue to support the IDG in caring for the patient and monitor the evolving needs of the patient and caregiver.
- Participate in discharge planning as needed.
- Pursue continued professional development through formal education, workshops, conferences, professional meetings, research, and reading.
- Assess the ability of patients and family members to cope with the patient’s dying.
- Consult with health team members and help them understand social, emotional, and environmental factors related to patients’ health problems.
- Help patients use family and community resources.
Benefits
- Full-time employees qualify for 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.
- Full-time employees qualify for paid time off and paid office holidays.
- All employees qualify for paid sick time.
- 401(k) with up to 3% company match.
- Referral Program.
- Payactiv pay-on-demand, allowing employees to cash out earned money when needed.
