Inpatient Palliative Care Social Worker

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary palliative care consultation service team of physicians, advance practice providers, chaplains, and other learners to provide supportive care to patients with serious illnesses and their families.
• Effectively communicate and coordinate with interdisciplinary members of various medical teams caring for palliative care patients in order to ensure continuity of care and to help facilitate complex discharge planning in collaboration with the patient’s primary social worker.
• Complete psychosocial assessments with focus on patient and families level of coping with serious illness and advance care planning.
• Provide ongoing emotional support and psychoeducation to patients and families in coping with disease progression, death/dying process.
• Provide psychoeducation to patients and families regarding advance care planning and help facilitate completion of advance directive documents when appropriate.
• Facilitate and co-facilitate family meetings to identify and address goals of care.
• Document in electronic medical record in a timely manner utilizing appropriate palliative care psychosocial assessment, advance care planning and discharge planning tools.
• Maintain relationships with palliative care and hospice community agencies and keep up-to-date on relative resources and laws regarding advance care planning.
• Plan, facilitate and participate in palliative care educational programs for interdisciplinary staff both within the hospital and across the health system.

Qualifications

• Social Worker (Required)
• Advanced Certificate in Hospice & Palliative Social Work (Required)
• Master of Arts or Science (Required)

Benefits

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.

Pay

$64,390.56 - $102,664.22/Annually based on 40 hours per week

Schedule

As part of their job offer, successful candidates are provided a specific rate, taking into consideration various factors including experience and education.

Benefits

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Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.