Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Hospice - PRN

Responsibilities

• Assess patients' and families' psychosocial, environmental, and financial needs.
• Formulate, implement, and evaluate a plan of care in collaboration with patient, family, and other caregivers, and provides case management as appropriate.
• Aid the team in understanding the social and emotional factors related to the patients’ health problems.
• Maintain documentation in patient’s record per internal regulatory and professional standards.
• Monitor, observe, and evaluate changes and progress in patient’s condition and environment. Report changes, progress, or lack of progress to physician and/or nurse case manager.
• Act as key source in patient situations such as: ineffective patient/family coping and decision making, advance directives, long-term or assisted living placement, substance abuse, abuse/neglect, and/or bereavement.

Qualifications

• Must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of employment.
• Must possess one year of social work experience in a health care setting.
• Medicare home health or hospice experience is preferred.
• Must be capable of making independent decisions relevant to client’s needs.
• Must be capable of prioritizing and handling multiple tasks of critical importance simultaneously.