Social Worker LMSW - Hospice

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

About the Role

The Social Worker maintains a caseload of patients in multiple settings to provide psychosocial services and assist the patient/family with resources, information and services to benefit their adjustment to illness, hospitalization and recovery throughout the continuum of care. This includes age-appropriate interventions for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. The Social Worker assesses the patient's situation and initiates appropriate action to obtain available community resources.

Responsibilities

• Assesses, manages, and facilitates meeting patients' needs and carries a caseload of patients in multiple settings (home care, ALF, SNF, PCH, IPU, etc).
• Appropriately schedules and adjusts frequencies of visits as status indicates per physician order.
• Develops and revises individual plan of care based on patient need and physician order.
• Meets established productivity standards.
• Completes bereavement assessments, calls, follow-ups, and facilitates bereavement support groups as needed/required.
• Seeks training, supervision, or direction from leadership as needed.
• Rotates on-call for weekends and holidays as directed by leadership.
• Coordinates care and services with community, clinical supervisor, and other team members.
• Performs other duties as assigned by Department Leadership.
• Maintains communication with physician reporting any changes that may affect the patient's recovery.
• Serves as patient educator to foster self-care or caregiver support for the patient.
• Reports concerns to authorities or agency leadership on any issues that affect patient or staff safety.
• Utilizes both verbal and written tools to facilitate learning and promotion of independence during recovery.
• Carries a caseload of patients and provides psychosocial services in multiple settings. Meets all regulatory standards for timelines and documents in the EMR within 24 hrs of care.
• Demonstrates knowledge and appropriate application of regulatory guidelines.
• Participates in care team conferences with coworkers regarding patient needs, discharges, risks, etc.
• Responsible for checking voicemail and secure messaging a minimum of twice daily.
• Responsible for attending continuing education and in-services as directed and needed.
• Responsible for maintaining current knowledge of community and professional resources for age-appropriate patients.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Requirements

• Master's in Social Work.
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - American Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor.
• LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker (GA).
• Minimum 3 years in healthcare, one year in area of specialty.

Skills

• Independent and self-directed, problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong assessment and clinical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to write and follow directions to patients' homes.
• Use of Windows-based computer, utilizing home health patient software, email, internet, computer-based learning modules, etc.
• Knowledge of home health operations, case management, community resources, reimbursement, law, and regulatory processes.

Schedule

Day shift.