PRN - Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Home Health - Lubbock, TX
Frontpoint Health•Lubbock, TX
About The Position
High Plains Senior Care is hiring a PRN Medical Social Worker for home health in Lubbock, Texas. The role helps patients, their significant others, physicians, and health care team members understand personal, emotional, environmental, and social factors that affect health problems, care needs, and the benefits of medical services. The Medical Social Worker contributes to integrated treatment planning, connects patients with family and community resources, and provides rehabilitative and supportive casework. The position also includes clinical documentation, evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, participation in agency activities and education, and monthly supervision of a social work assistant.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in social work (MSW) from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, or a license in the State of Texas.
- One year of experience working as a social worker.
- Current driver’s license and current automobile insurance.
- Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing.
- Ability to access clients’ homes that may not be routinely wheelchair accessible.
- Hearing, eyesight, and physical dexterity sufficient to perform a physical assessment and client care.
- Ability to walk, sit, stoop, and stand, and to lift and turn clients, with lifting needs ranging from minimal to maximum.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients’ ability to cope with social and health problems.
- Help patients, significant others, physicians, and health care team members understand personal, emotional, environmental, and social factors related to health problems.
- Contribute to the development of comprehensive, integrated patient treatment plans as a member of the health care team.
- Instruct health care team members about available community resources.
- Help patients use resources available through their families and communities.
- Provide rehabilitative and supportive casework.
- Assist patients and families in coping with personal and environmental difficulties that may predispose them to illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefit from medical care.
- Observe, record, and report changes in clients’ emotional and social factors that affect illness, care needs, and response to treatment.
- Maintain and submit written clinical records, including initial evaluations, care plans, and daily notes, as required by the agency.
- Evaluate clients’ and families’ responses to and the effectiveness of medical social work interventions.
- Participate in agency activities and committees as appropriate, including staff development and in-service education.
- Supervise the social work assistant once monthly.
- Pursue professional self-development through education, workshops, conferences, organizational meetings, research, and reading.
