What are the responsibilities and job description for the MSW, Hospice & Home Health position at Assisted Home Health & Hospice?
We are looking for a Medical Social Worker for our beautiful branch in Santa Barbara!
We pay $81 per/routine visits and $86 per/eval visits.
Assisted offers great and rewarding career opportunities making a difference in the lives of people.
Join our team and love what you do!
Help others. Make a difference. Be proud.
Assisted Offers Our Employees a Unique Employment Package:
What you will do:
Skills, education, and experience:
Diversity candidates and veterans are encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
We pay $81 per/routine visits and $86 per/eval visits.
Assisted offers great and rewarding career opportunities making a difference in the lives of people.
Join our team and love what you do!
Help others. Make a difference. Be proud.
Assisted Offers Our Employees a Unique Employment Package:
- Affordable medical, dental and vision benefits package.
- Company matched 401K (up to 6% of your annual salary can be matched)
- A very generous referral bonus – earn up to $600* per referral.
- We’ll empower you to reach your highest levels of personal and professional development by providing up to $6,000* tuition education reimbursement.
- Vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays package*
What you will do:
- Assess emotional factors related to terminal illness.
- Assess need for counseling related to risk assessment for pathological grief.
- Assess the patient / family’s psychosocial status, potential for risk of suicide and / or abuse or neglect.
- Assess environmental resources and obstacles to maintaining safety.
- Assess special needs related to cultural diversity including communication, space, role of family members and special traditions.
- Identify developmental level of patient/family and obstacles to learning.
- Assess caregiver’s ability to function adequately in care of the patient.
- Consult and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in development and revision of the plan of care.
- Involve the patient/family in the plan of care, addressing questions and issues, identifying obstacles to compliance and assisting in understanding of goals of interventions.
- Connect the patient, family and caregiver with community resources, as needed and assesses patient/family ability to access.
- Provide social services including, but not limited to, short-term counseling, crisis intervention, assistance with education and preparation of advance directives, funeral planning issues and transfer of responsibilities regarding fiscal, legal and health care decisions.
Skills, education, and experience:
- Master of Social Work degree from a school of social work accredited or approved by the Council on Social Work Education.
- Current CPR, TB and health clearance and core competency per skills checklist.
- At least one year of experience in social work in a health care setting.
Diversity candidates and veterans are encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
Salary : $81
