Social Worker

Social Worker

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

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