Social Worker

Ability to travel per job requirements.
Thorough knowledge of community resources or the desire/ability to obtain this knowledge.
Knowledge of key psychosocial issues prevalent with terminally ill patients and their family/caregivers, including the knowledge of effective psychosocial interventions to address those issues.
Capacity to relate and work well with others as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
Excellent listening and communication skills.
Ability to be an effective patient and family advocate- both within the patient/family unit, within the core IDG, and within community agencies and the like.

Participates in the preparation, evaluation and execution of the interdisciplinary plan of care to assure that the highest quality psychosocial care is provided to patients/families and that continuity and comprehensiveness of care are maintained.
Performs bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessments of patient/families, rather than diagnostic.
Provides individual and family supportive counseling, rather than diagnostic.
Refers patient and family to appropriate community resources as needed.
Maintains accurate and timely documentation in the patient medical record.
Attends weekly team meeting to plan of care.
Participates in patient case conferences.
Provides psychosocial education and consultation to the core interdisciplinary group.
Participates in psychosocial supervision meetings and other trainings. May provide supervision to other psychosocial team members, including social work interns at the direction of the team manager.
May act as the coordinator and communicator of volunteer interventions on the plan of care.
Provides bereavement care, including bereavement group activities.
Participates in psychosocial spiritual on-call rotation/schedule as assigned.

Experience as a social worker with the terminally ill and their families, preferred.