Social Worker PRN Status, Harbor Hospice
HOSPICE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY•Muskegon, MI
About The Position
The Social Worker coordinates social work services for Harbor Hospice’s home care program or Poppen residence in a community-based home or facility setting. The role provides supportive counseling, anticipatory guidance, and assistance to patients and families experiencing personal, psychosocial, psychoeducational, and environmental difficulties related to the patient’s illness. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Requirements
- Graduate of a Master’s program in social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, with current certification in the State of Michigan; alternatively, a master’s degree in psychology, sociology, counseling, human services, or another field related to social work, with supervision by an LMSW.
- Current State of Michigan Social Work License (LMSW or LLMSW).
- Driver’s license.
- Knowledge of the social services concept and philosophy.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Responsibilities
- Assess the psychosocial status of patients, families, and caregivers in relation to the patient’s illness and environment in their identified residence.
- Assess risk and intervene clinically to identify potential for complicated grief, and explore anticipatory bereavement related to possible death, loss, and adaptation throughout the illness.
- Plan, develop, and carry out interventions based on psychosocial assessments.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of planned interventions and manage the interdisciplinary team patient plan of care.
- Provide strength-based, person-centered, family-centered, and comprehensive psychosocial assessments.
- Provide culturally appropriate and developmentally appropriate psychosocial interventions throughout the continuum of illness, including supportive counseling, psychoeducation, anticipatory guidance, advocacy, facilitating family meetings, linking patients and families to community resources, and non-pharmacological pain and symptom management.
- Provide clinical guidance and consultation to the interdisciplinary team, including social workers and case managers, to support continuity of care, safe and comprehensive care coordination, and discharge planning as indicated.
- Formulate hypotheses about the nature and etiology of problems.
- Negotiate with patients, families, and caregivers to establish goals.
- Manage and enhance community partnerships.
- Facilitate educational opportunities focused on hospice care for clinical and ancillary providers.
- Participate in system improvement and quality initiatives.
- Identify and address disparities and barriers to effective social services care.
- Follow standard precautions and infection-control policies.
