PRN - Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Home Health - Lubbock, TX

PRN position with High Plains Senior Care in Lubbock, TX 79423.

Responsibilities

• Assists patients, significant others, physicians, and health care team staff to understand significant personal, emotional, environmental, and social factors and difficulties related to the patient's health problems that interfere with maximizing the benefit of medical services and the plan of care.
• Contributes as a health care team member to the development of comprehensive, integrated treatment plans for patients.
• Instructs health care team members on community resources available to assist patients.
• Observes, records, and reports changes in the client's emotional and social factors that affect the client's illness, need for care, and response to treatment.
• Maintains and submits written clinical records as deemed by the Agency, including the initial evaluation, the care plan, and daily notes.
• Evaluates the clients' and family's response to, and effectiveness of, the medical social work intervention.
• Participates in Agency activities and committees when appropriate, including staff development activities and in-service education.
• Supervises the social work assistant once monthly.
• Assumes responsibility for self-development by continually striving to improve medical social work practice through formal education, attendance at workshops and conferences, active participation in professional and related organizational meetings, and individual research and reading.

Skills

• Assesses the client's potential to cope with social and health problems.
• Acts as consultant to members of the health team, assisting them in understanding the social, emotional, and environmental factors related to the client's health problems.
• Helps clients utilize the resources of their families and the community.
• Provides rehabilitative and supportive casework.
• Assists clients and their families in coping with personal and environmental difficulties which might predispose them toward illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care.

Qualifications

• Master's degree (MSW) from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, or licensure in the State of Texas.
• One year of experience working as a social worker.
• Current driver's license with current automobile insurance.
• Ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to access clients' homes which may not be routinely wheelchair accessible.
• Hearing, eyesight, and physical dexterity sufficient to perform a physical assessment of the client's condition and to perform client care.
• Physical activities include walking, sitting, stooping, standing, and minimal to maximum lifting of clients and turning of clients.