Part Time Social Worker - Palliative Care

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Provides psychosocial support and counseling to patients, families and caregivers and identifies and coordinates community resource needs.

Responsibilities :

• Ensures that patient / family psychosocial issues are addressed and that community resource needs are identified for each patient / family.
• Performs and completes patient / family initial and on-going bio-psychosocial assessments consistent with YoloCares policies and procedures; ensure initial assessments are completed within five days of social work start date.
• Contributes to the IDT in establishing and maintaining a Plan of Care for each patient / family.
• Provides direct clinical services to patients / families, as indicated by the initial and ongoing bio-psychosocial assessment and as directed by the Plan of Care, documents accordingly.
• Provides clinical consultation to the IDT members, health care staff and collaborates with community referral agencies / persons, observing confidentiality regulations and policies.
• Identifies and coordinates community referral required to support or enhance the treatment of patient / family.
• Participates in weekly IDT meetings.
• Works with Bereavement Services Manager to provide bereavement and / or anticipatory grief counseling / therapy to patient / family.
• Provides admission assessments social work documentation for YoloCares Palliative Care Program.
• Provides visitation / phone calls to Palliative Care program as directed by plan of care or by RN / Program Manager.

Note : The above statements are intended to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by the incumbent of this job. The incumbent may, from time to time, be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated.

Professional and Technical Development

Requirements : Qualifications :

Job Specifications :

Schedule : 20-24 hours per week