PRN Licensed Master Social Worker - Dialysis

Career Opportunities with Rendevor Dialysis

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

Rendevor Dialysis is a family owned and operated dialysis company founded over 30 years ago on the principle that everyone is entitled to quality care provided by talented clinicians.

What’s In It For You?

We pride ourselves in providing a caring, positive culture for our employees and sharing the experience with our clients.

We offer an extremely generous package including:

• A 4% dollar for dollar company match to the 401k plan with immediate vesting
• ...and much more.

What You’ll Do

As the Licensed Master Social Worker you are responsible for conducting psychosocial evaluations, developing knowledge, and understanding the needs for the clinically complex dialysis patients. You will be in the most challenging of clinical settings and able to utilize your natural gift as a patient advocate to drive differential results for dialysis patients.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree from an accredited graduate school of social work
• Minimum of 12 months professional work experience as a MSW in a dialysis setting
• State licensure, if required or available in the state where facility is located

Required Skills and

Competencies:

• Ability to cover multiple units
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Computer proficiency

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• As a member of the interdisciplinary team, assesses patients' psychosocial status, strengths and areas of need that may affect rehabilitation and optimal treatment outcomes as part of the comprehensive patient assessment based on KDQOL assessment and guidelines
• Participates in care planning in collaboration with the patient and healthcare team to identify effective interventions that will help the patient meet rehabilitation, treatment goals, and improve quality of life.
• Provides established outcomes driven psycho-educational counseling methods aimed at improving areas of need, treatment adherence, vocational/educational rehabilitation and/or quality of life
• Provides supportive and goal directed counseling to patients who are seeking transplant.
• Assesses patient awareness of advance directives; assists with accessing advance directive forms/information and facilitates discussion of advance directive wishes, if necessary, with the healthcare team and the patient's family/support persons
• Will provide general information about Do Not Resuscitate Orders and Advanced Directives
• Provides information and assists the team and patient with referral to community resources (home health services, vocational rehabilitation, etc.) to facilitate optimal treatment outcomes
• Maintains current knowledge regarding local vocational/educational rehabilitation programs and assist patients with referral and access to vocational rehabilitation to enable them to remain employed, become employed or receive education
• In collaboration with the physician and nurse, participates in the discussion of patient DNR status in the facility to ensure patient understanding and informed decision making
• Provides usual care and/or Social Work Intensive to address non-adherence and quality of life concerns for all patients
• Assesses patient knowledge of kidney disease for barriers that may affect adherence to treatment and works with patient, family, and health care team to provide education tailored to the patient’s learning style and needs
• With other members of the interdisciplinary team, provides appropriate information about all treatment modalities
• Facilitates the transplant referral process and collaborates with interdisciplinary team
• Reviews patient rights and responsibilities, grievance information (company and network) and other facilities policies with patient and/or the patients’ representative to ensure patients’ understanding of the rights and expectations of them
• Collaborates with management, financial and billing team to address patient issues related to insurance
• Provides information and education to patients about payment to dialysis (federal,…