Medical Social Worker
Full Time
White River Junction, VT 05001
Posted
Job description
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Performs culturally sensitive psychosocial assessments and establishes goals, and individualized care plans. This includes such issues as legal, financial, spiritual, emotional, and interpersonal.
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Provides direct support for psychological and emotional challenges within individual scope of practice, identifies when other resources are needed to meet patient needs and ensures referrals.
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Provides psychosocial education to patients and families about coping skills, hospice philosophy and non-pharmacological symptom management.
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Works with the interdisciplinary group to create and manage the plan of care and to reinforce all patient /family education and learning needs.
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Ensures complete filing of public and private insurance documents.
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Leads discussions about end of life decision making including completing legal documents for advanced care planning and filing per agency and legal standards.
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Provides leadership to safely manage complex and crisis oriented patient-family psychosocial concerns (examples suicidal risk, drug diversion, mental health barriers to care).
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Displays detailed knowledge of community resources, when and how to utilize them and does so appropriately.
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Documents the patient's progress according to Agency policy, utilizing appropriate technology.
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Attends and actively participates in Interdisciplinary Group (IDG) meetings.
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Provide care coordination of services across the agency and community.
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Demonstrates active listening skills.
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Participates in quality improvement projects/studies.
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Communicates consistently in an effective, compassionate and culturally appropriate manner verbally and in writing.
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Provides continuing educational services to other health care professionals and groups.
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May provide bereavement support to families and communities.
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Participates in the development and coordination of student internship programs as appropriate.
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Leads patient transfers or discharges into and out of service; use of respite care, or changes in patient location.
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May be assigned to provide hospice information to individuals or groups.
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Adheres to all agency policies, procedures and standards.
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Demonstrates continuous engagement with standards of practice in hospice social work.
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Master’s in Social Work from school accredited or approved by the Council on Social Work and Education.
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Three years of experience in supervised health care setting managing complex psychosocial and spiritual cases.
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None
PURPOSE
Provides support to patients and their families as they navigate the difficult process of end-of-life planning; including but not limited to supporting family decision-making; identifying and sharing personal preferences; making post death plans. Offers professional guidance to help patients and families manage mental, emotional, familial, and monetary stressors of debilitating physical illness; understand their treatment plan and be vocal about their needs; overcome crisis situations; and connect to other support services in the area.
Hospice medical social workers are a key component of the VNH interdisciplinary team and advocates for patients and their families, providing services to stabilize and increase the patient’s physical comfort, emotional comfort, mental state, spiritual state, and social stimulation.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS/REGISTRATIONS SKILLS (Tracked at the department level)
Location: Visiting Nurse and Hospice for VT and NH · Hospice North
Schedule: Full Time, Days
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