Social Worker -Bridge Home Health

PURPOSE OF THIS POSITION

The Social Worker is the team member responsible for providing consultation to the interdisciplinary team and direct service to home health, palliative care or hospice patient/families to assist in identifying, understanding, and meeting their psychosocial needs. The Social Worker understands and is committed to the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Hospice concept and can explain these to families requiring assistance in decision making and understanding care options. The Social Worker assists patients with access to community resources for home health, palliative care or hospice related needs and manages on-call as scheduled in a consistently responsible manner.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Duty 1: Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide age specific care to the patients served with Bridge Home Health, Palliative Care and Hospice.
• Duty 2: Maintains assigned patient caseload within scheduled hours while minimizing overtime. Manages on-call responsibilities to include keeping management informed of any unusual or special incident occurrences.
• Duty 3: Makes initial contact with each assigned patient/family to assess psychosocial needs and to set mutual goals.
• Duty 4: Establishes and maintains communication/collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team and patient’s primary physician regarding patient mental or psychosocial condition, plan of care, and anticipated needs to ensure exceptional patient care.
• Duty 5: Able to communicate each service line’s services/benefits and discuss payment options.
• Duty 6: Utilizes a team approach to teaching opportunities and family care issues of the patient.
• Duty 7: Utilizes educational materials or outside resources as needed. Cooperates with other agencies in coordinating patient care with other agencies and community resources.
• Duty 8: Facilitates interventions for the patient/family making ethical and legal decisions to manage patient care.
• Duty 9: Documentation is consistent with or exceeds Bridge Home Health and Hospice guidelines.
• Duty 10: Assists patients/families, colleagues, and self to cope with grief and loss. Able to disengage in a professional manner.
• Duty 11: Displays Service Excellence as evidenced by practicing the mission, vision, and values of the organization to promote patient satisfaction.
• Duty 12: Complies with organizational policies, procedures, and practices to ensure quality job performance and Medicare/Medicaid compliance.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in social work and state licensure are required.
• Good interpersonal skills, knowledge of family dynamics and counseling skills are essential.
• Knowledge of and commitment to the philosophy, mission and goals of the agency and the standards and regulations governing it.