Social Worker - Palliative Care

About the role

Agrace, a nationally recognized nonprofit leader in hospice and palliative care, seeks a skilled Social Worker to join its team. This role offers the opportunity to provide meaningful, patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to identify patient and family needs, coping strategies, and barriers to care.
• Provide emotional support, validation of experience, and offer strategies to foster resilience for patients and caregivers coping with chronic illness.
• Formulate individualized plan of care for patients based on assessed needs, strengths, limitations, and goals.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary care team to develop and provide recommendations to address complex situations that are consistent with patient goals and values.
• Facilitate advance care planning discussions and assist with completion of advance directives if indicated.
• Provide crisis intervention. Intervene, document, report, and provide support and interventions during or after crisis in coping with stress or unusual incidents such as client abuse/neglect, suicidal intent, harmful coping mechanisms, or violence, etc.
• Facilitate ongoing communication with patients, families, Agrace staff, providers, and community supports.
• Maintain timely and accurate documentation of assessment and interventions to ensure continuity of care.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of education, support, and interventions and adjust to assist with crisis prevention and reduce caregiver burden.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of internal and community resources across geographic areas. Connect patients/families to resources to facilitate transitions of care and increase support.
• Act as patient/family advocate to obtain resources.
• Participate in internal work groups, meetings, and committees relative to position responsibilities.
• Participate in meetings to plan and evaluate patient/family services.
• Participate in education and outreach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Social Work (BSW), required; Master’s in Social Work (MSW), preferred.
• Current, unrestricted Social Work License in state of employment.
• Two years of medical social work experience required.
• Valid driver’s license, auto insurance, and access to a reliable vehicle.
• Ability to develop, maintain, and apply knowledge of palliative care and end of life process.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries with patients, families, and co-workers.
• Ability to create and follow plans of care, and patient, family, and clinical staff directions.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills.
• Intermediate electronic health records skills.
• Ability to work effectively and cooperatively with others.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Ability to be flexible in time and task to meet organizational needs.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality about patients, families, caregivers, staff, donors, and organizational intellectual property.
• Ability to use proper body mechanics, safe patient handling, and standard precautions.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with mileage reimbursement.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees who are hired for 28+ hours per week (.7 FTE +).
• Retirement plans with employer matching.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and holiday paid time off.
• Comprehensive onboarding, mentorship, and career development.

Pay

Competitive pay with mileage reimbursement.

Schedule

Day Shift | Monday-Friday | 8am-4:30pm