Social Worker, Mental Health

Job Description

We are VITAS Healthcare, the nation’s leading end-of-life care provider since 1978. Our hospice organization kickstarts careers in caring, promotes from within, and provides a nationally recognized best-in-class employee experience.

As a hospice social worker, you will provide emotional and logistical support to patients and their loved ones during an important and vulnerable time. You will ensure VITAS patients reach the end of life with their affairs in order, honoring their wishes for finances, funeral arrangements, and more.

Each day is different for our social workers. You will spend most of your time caring for hospice patients wherever they call home, which may be a private residence, or an assisted living/skilled nursing facility.

VITAS social workers honor the trust of our patients and center others in their work. In addition to having your social work license, reliable transportation, and at least one year of social work experience in a health care setting, you'll approach your work with the traits that make the VITAS Difference:
Commitment, Compassion, and a Can-do Attitude.

• 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.

• 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
• At least one year social work experience in a health care setting.
• Experience as a social worker with the terminally ill and their families, preferred
• License and/or Certification if required by State

• CT:
  Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
• DC:
  Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW)
• DE:
  Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
• GA: MSW must be supervised by LCSW up to obtaining LMSW
• IL:
  Licensed Social Worker (LSW)
• NJ:
  Licensed Social Worker (LSW)
• OH:
  Licensed Social Worker (LSW)
• TX:
  Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
• WI:
  Social Worker Certificate

• EOE/AA M/F/D/V

VITAS Healthcare is the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care, and has the resources and expertise to support your personal and professional growth.

• Competitive compensation
• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• Pre-tax healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• 401(k) plan with numerous investment options and generous company match
• Cancer and/or critical illness benefit
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Legal Insurance
• Roadside Assistance
• Affinity Program