Social Worker Pediatric Palliative Care
About The Position
Care Dimensions provides compassionate care to patients facing advanced or end-of-life illnesses, and has been a driving force in expanding access to hospice and palliative care in Massachusetts since 1978. The organization invests in its employees through extensive training, teamwork, and technology, guided by values of Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration, Integrity, Responsiveness, and Innovation. The Pediatric Palliative Care Social Worker, reporting to the Palliative Care Clinical Manager, is responsible for providing ongoing psychosocial assessments and advocating for interventions that alleviate burden and facilitate coping for assigned pediatric palliative care patients and their families. This role involves participation in family support, teaching, counseling, education, and advanced care planning in collaboration with the pediatric palliative care interdisciplinary team.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Social Work
- LICSW or LCSW required
- Demonstrated experience working with children and families in clinical capacity
- Demonstrated experience working with life-threatening conditions and chronic disease
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with patients, caretakers and providers
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Demonstrated Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrated organizational skills
- Time management skills
Nice To Haves
- One year work experience in hospice and/or palliative care
- Experience in the use of electronic medical record
- Fluency in Spanish and/ or Portuguese
Responsibilities
- Providing ongoing psychosocial assessments for assigned pediatric palliative care patients and their families
- Advocating for interventions that alleviate burden and facilitate coping for assigned pediatric palliative care patients and their families
- Participating in family support
- Participating in teaching
- Participating in counseling
- Participating in education
- Participating in advanced care planning in collaboration with the pediatric palliative care interdisciplinary team
Benefits
- Great benefits
- Generous earned time (vacation days) program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan payback program
- Employer-sponsored health insurance
- Paid time-off
- Scholarship programs
- Two retirement plans
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Supplemental insurance options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
