Social Worker-Capital Caring Health

About the Role

The Hospice Social Worker provides a wide variety of services to patients, caregivers, and families in accordance with the individualized plan of care. The Social Worker actively participates in coordination of all aspects of the patient’s care following current professional standards and practice. Their expertise lies in identifying and addressing the emotional and biopsychosocial needs in advanced illness at end of life.

Supervisory Responsibilities

The Social Worker will perform supervisory duties only when recommended and educated to do so by organizational leadership. Eligible staff may provide clinical supervision when mutually agreed upon.

Requirements

• Minimum Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from a Social Work accredited school.
• At least 2 years of Master's level Social Work experience in an interdisciplinary or health care setting.
• Appropriate licensure from the governing body for practice in the District of Columbia, State of Maryland, and/or the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Skills

• Superlative oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to organize and manage competing patient needs.
• Work both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Manage multiple tasks and stressful situations with a positive attitude.
• Strong work ethic and attention to detail.
• Skills in psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, and counseling.
• Knowledge of theoretical basis to social work practice.
• Advocate for patient/family/caregiver across settings.
• Conduct effective community education that enhances understanding of end-of-life care.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to issues of grief and loss.
• Exceptional leadership skills, including conceptual thinking, peer motivation, problem-solving, and demonstrated initiative.
• Work in a fast-paced environment utilizing tact, patience, and diplomacy.
• Resolve conflict and be comfortable with conflict resolution and management.
• Facilitate trusting relationships and partnerships with physicians, payers, patients, and coworkers.
• Maintain a positive public image through interactions with patients and employees.
• Communicate respectfully, openly, honestly, and directly.
• Drive extensively and navigate to new customer locations, sometimes in heavy traffic.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and internet browsers.
• Effectively utilize patient health information systems.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions and deal with problems of various complexity levels.

Physical and Work Environment Demands

• Regularly required to sit, talk, or hear.
• Often required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, taste or smell, and push, pull, lift, or carry up to 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Effectively manage work-related stress and maintain consistent customer service focus.
• Work environment varies; travel to patient homes or facilities may expose staff to temperature fluctuations, unclean living environments, increased volume, and other unforeseen challenges.
• Access to regional business office space with computers, printers, copy/fax machines, and telephones.
• Expected noise level in the office work environment is usually light to moderate.

Pay

Pay Range: $62,249.35 - $92,651.93

This position requires consent to drug and/or alcohol testing after a conditional offer of employment is made, as well as ongoing compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Policy. All employees performing services for Florida affiliates are submitted through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse to verify eligibility after a conditional offer of employment is made, as well as ongoing eligibility.