SOCIAL WORKER - Lcsw​/Aventura

The Social Worker provides social work services primarily on a visiting and intermittent basis in the Inpatient Unit in accordance with the policies and procedures of Catholic Palliative Care Services.

Essential Functions

• Assess patient’s needs in the Inpatient Unit within established time frames within organizational, state and federal regulations.
• Provides individual counseling of patients and family members coping with terminal illness.
• Administers individual and family psychosocial support depending on individual need and state compliance.
• Evaluates and assesses patient and family to determine coping strategies related to grief.
• Develop treatment plans in accordance with outcome of evaluation while collaborating with interdisciplinary team members.
• Completes clinical note, psychosocial and financial assessments, interdisciplinary notes, bereavement assessments, etc., and gives copies to appropriate Manager.
• Facilitates crisis intervention working with community organizations and interdisciplinary team members to ensure patient and patient-family unit psychosocial care.
• Attends group meetings, individual and family interviews during the evening hours as needed.
• Provides written weekly schedule to Clinical Care Manager in an effort to maintain compliance and deliver psychosocial support.
• Instruct, treat, observe and evaluate patients exhibiting significant social and emotional problems affecting their health status.
• Implement the Plan of Care provisions to meet their needs, which include: social service goals for alleviating problems, supportive counseling, problem solving, community referrals, etc.
• Provides coordination and liaison service between Hospice caregiver and community agencies, hospital caregivers, funeral directors, lawyers, schools, etc.
• Provides referral services for the patients and families to the community agencies for needs beyond the scope of Hospice care, such as long-term therapy, psychiatric care, financial assistance, etc.
• Provides Bereavement counseling services to families of patients who received hospice care in a variety of treatment modalities including individual, family and group.
• Complete appropriate documentation in a timely manner to assure compliance with agency policy.
• Participate in the development and periodic re-evaluation of the physician’s Plan of Care (POC).
• Instruct and counsel patients and families in treating and coping with social and emotional response connected with the illness.
• Regularly assess the patient and family psychosocial needs.
• Regularly assess the pre-bereavement/anticipatory grief needs.

* Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Other Duties

• Apply concepts of agency’s infection control plan and universal precaution in coordination/performing client cares activities to protect both patient and staff (OSHA).
• Demonstrates knowledge of hospice levels of care, Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefits by providing appropriate documentation when the need arises.
• Participates in educational and developmental programs to enhance his or her ability to provide therapeutic services to patients, families, staff and the community.
• Knowledge of community resources to make referrals to agencies and coordinate services with patient-family units.
• Implements a comprehensive discharge plan.
• Utilizes Support Services Coordinator to gain input, seek resources and to obtain clinical supervision.
• Provides community education in the form of workshops, lectures, etc.
• Participates in orientation, team meetings, staff development and other interdisciplinary meetings.
• Accounts to the Support Services Coordinator for appropriate use of work logs in providing both service to patient/families and service to Hospice Staff and community.
• Ability to participate as an integral member of the interdisciplinary team in providing supportive services to patients and families through On-Call system.
• Exhibit high comfort level in dealing with terminal illness.
• Consistently able to work calmly and maintain effectiveness in situations of high stress.
• Maintaining the ability to extend hospitality and patience while…