Social Worker Nursing Home

VITAS Healthcare•Lakeland, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The social worker is that member of the core interdisciplinary group whose primary function is to perform an assessment of psychosocial symptoms of the patient and family, develop psychosocial outcomes for alleviating identified symptoms and help provide the psychoeducation, supportive counseling and casework interventions needed to meet these outcomes. The social worker also provides psychosocial education and consultation to the IDG.

Requirements

Ability to travel per job requirements
Thorough knowledge of community resources or the desire/ability to obtain this knowledge
Knowledge of key psychosocial issues prevalent with terminally ill patients and their family/caregivers, including the knowledge of effective psychosocial interventions to address those issues
Capacity to relate and work well with others as a member of an interdisciplinary team
Excellent listening and communication skills
Ability to be an effective patient and family advocate- both within the patient/family unit, within the core IDG, and within community agencies and the like
At least one year social work experience in a health care setting
Masters of Social Work required from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, unless grandfathered in per the 2008 Medicare Hospice Condition of Participation

Nice To Haves

Experience as a social worker with the terminally ill and their families

Responsibilities

Perform an assessment of psychosocial symptoms of the patient and family
Develop psychosocial outcomes for alleviating identified symptoms
Help provide the psychoeducation, supportive counseling and casework interventions needed to meet these outcomes
Provide psychosocial education and consultation to the IDG
Participate in the preparation, evaluation and execution of the interdisciplinary plan of care to assure that the highest quality psychosocial care is provided to patients/families and that continuity and comprehensiveness of care are maintained
Perform bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessments of patient/families, rather than diagnostic
Provide individual and family supportive counseling, rather than therapy
Refer patient and family to appropriate community resources as needed
Maintain accurate and timely documentation in the patient medical record
Attend weekly team meeting for plan of care
Participate in patient case conferences
Provide psychosocial education and consultation to the core IDG
Participate in psychosocial supervision meetings and other trainings
May provide supervision to other psychosocial team members, including social work interns at the direction of the team manager
May act as the coordinator and communicator of volunteer interventions on the plan of care
Provide bereavement care, including bereavement group activities
Participate in psychosocial spiritual on-call rotation/schedule as assigned