Medical Social Worker MSW Home Health PRN

Elara Caring•Worthington, OH

About The Position

Elara Caring is seeking a Medical Social Worker (MSW) to provide home health social work services. The role supports patients in their homes by assessing psychosocial, financial, and environmental needs; addressing social work-related care needs; and helping ensure patient safety, quality, continuity of care, and appropriate discharge planning. The Medical Social Worker collaborates with patients, families, physicians, supervisors, and other care team members, and documents care and communicates changes in the patient’s condition or environment. The position is listed as PRN/Part Time and requires 50% travel.

Requirements

Master’s or doctoral degree in Social Work from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
At least 1 year of social work experience in a healthcare setting.
Current state license as a Social Worker.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Social work skills consistent with general social work standards.
Ability to travel 50% of the time.
Ability to sit, stand, bend, lift, and move intermittently, and to lift 50–100 lbs.
Valid driver’s license and insurance, and reliable transportation to perform job tasks.

Responsibilities

Align activities with the vision of Elara Caring’s board of directors, executive team, and Home Health leadership.
Assess patients’ psychosocial, financial, and environmental needs using documentation, clinical records, case conferences, team reports, call-in logs, and on-site evaluations.
Complete the initial social work evaluation visit and reevaluate social work needs during subsequent visits.
Communicate significant findings, problems, and changes in a patient’s condition or environment to the Supervisor, physician, and other personnel involved in care.
Report unsafe conditions and the outcome of each visit to the appropriate Supervisor by the end of the day.
Implement the patient safety plan using patient, family, and community resources.
Participate in developing and implementing the Plan of Care to support quality and continuity of care and appropriate discharge planning.
Verify the Plan of Care before each visit and provide care according to physician’s orders, assessment data, and established standards and guidelines.
Initiate and revise the Plan of Care in response to identified patient care issues.
Write physician orders for additional visits and changes to the Plan of Care, according to agency policy.
Incorporate patient care goals established in the Plan of Care into care and document them in clinical notes.
Perform appropriate skilled services and interventions in accordance with accepted standards of practice and as certified by the patient’s physician.
Counsel and instruct patients and families and include them in following the Plan of Care and meeting social work-related needs.