PRN- Pediatric Social Work - Capital Caring Health

Capital Caring•Fairview Park, VA

17h

About The Position

The PRN Pediatric Social Worker works in collaboration with the pediatric interdisciplinary team to support regional hospice and concurrent-care pediatric patients. The role assists with initial, routine, and emergent visits as needed and conducts initial and ongoing social-work assessments, judgments, and treatment decisions based on the needs and wishes of patients and their families or caregivers. The social worker provides psychosocial support, helps patients and families work with resource providers and make decisions, and collaborates with clinical staff and other professionals to support quality and continuity of care. Responsibilities vary by service area and may include hospice, palliative care, home health, bereavement counseling, and volunteer coordination. This position requires travel to off-site locations and the ability to access homes and care facilities. The position pays $36.00. A conditional offer is subject to required drug and/or alcohol testing and applicable background-screening eligibility verification.

Requirements

Master’s degree or above in Social Work from a CSWE-accredited program. Stated grandfathering exceptions apply to certain employees hired before 2009 or before April 21, 2019; a bachelor’s degree may be considered depending on geographic area. Home Health requires an MSW.
Employees working in Georgia must hold a current Georgia LMSW or LCSW.
At least one year of experience, including a social-work or counseling internship, in a health-care or hospital setting.
Familiarity with concepts and practices relevant to both adult and pediatric patients, including hospice, death and dying, palliative care, and serious illness.
Previous experience working with an EMR/EHR system.
Experience with children, family, and group modalities.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and effectively handle the emotional stress of the workload.
Ability to remain calm and professional, troubleshoot, and intervene in patient or family crisis situations.
Ability to demonstrate high ethical standards, including confidentiality, sensitivity, and flexibility.
Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work in a team environment and intervene appropriately.
Valid driver’s license and automobile insurance in accordance with company policy.
Ability to travel to off-site locations and physically access homes, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and assisted-living facilities, including navigating stairs and narrow spaces and working in locations without air conditioning.
Satisfactorily complete the competency requirements for the position.

Responsibilities

Perform and document psychosocial assessments.
Empower patients and families to negotiate with resource providers and make decisions on their own behalf.
Help clinical staff understand family dynamics and social and emotional factors related to health problems and develop nonjudgmental plans to address identified issues.
Maintain documentation that is timely, complete, accurate, legible, and clear about goals and interventions.
Consult and collaborate with other professionals to promote quality and continuity of patient and family care.
Perform other duties as assigned.
For home health: participate in developing individualized Plans of Care and in case conferences.
For home health: observe and report clinical symptoms, reactions to treatment, emotional status, and pertinent changes to appropriate staff.
For home health: anticipate barriers to pain and symptom management, identify differences between curative and palliative care goals, and provide appropriate education.
Respect patients’ wishes and stated goals when planning and providing care.
For hospice: share responsibility with clinicians and volunteers for providing psychosocial support, advance-directive information, Plan of Care development, and other social services based on patient and family needs.
For hospice: attend and participate in Interdisciplinary Group meetings, help develop and update Plans of Care, explain social-service and bereavement aspects of care, and provide the team with goals and interventions.
For hospice: evaluate bereavement needs, make condolence calls, evaluate risk, and coordinate Plans of Care with bereavement staff.
For palliative care: assist with or facilitate patient-family meetings for goal setting and advance care planning, and provide emotional support to patients and families facing serious illness.
For palliative care: coordinate education and outreach relevant to the social-services and palliative-care interface.
For palliative care: liaise among outpatient and inpatient palliative-care teams, discharge planning and social-service departments, and community hospice, home-care agencies, long-term-care facilities, and other community services.
Where applicable in the Florida Keys and North Florida, evaluate bereavement needs for survivors, provide grief guidance and support, facilitate bereavement and holiday support groups, and maintain bereavement documentation.
Where applicable in the Florida Keys and North Florida, recruit, screen, train, assign, supervise, and evaluate volunteers; support volunteer programs and events; maintain volunteer records; and provide volunteer-related feedback and liaison support in interdisciplinary meetings.
Represent the company professionally; comply with applicable regulations, policies, procedures, and safety and security practices; maintain confidentiality; use resources responsibly; and participate in performance improvement, professional development, research, education, and quality activities.