Medical Social Worker

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Job Summary : To deliver varied social work services to hospice patients and their families. To provide initial emotional, spiritual, psychosocial assessments, ongoing counseling, bereavement services, and community education, outreach, and referral. The hospice social worker is an integral part of the hospice IDG.

Duties to Include, but not limited to :

• Ensures documentation of communication skills and activities with the patient, such as : assessment of emotional factors, counseling for long-range planning and decision-making, community resource planning, short-term therapy, etc.
• Performs initial psychosocial, emotional, spiritual and bereavement assessments and assists in the development and implementation of goal-directed IDG care plan.
• Observes, assesses, and brings to IDG conferences information regarding psychosocial, emotional, spiritual, physical, and financial conditions affecting the patient and family.
• Attends all IDT / mandatory meetings.
• Communicate effectively with interdisciplinary team members.
• Provides social work services to meet the needs of the patient and family.
• Conducts ongoing reassessments of patient / family needs and counseling as required.
• Provides short-term crisis intervention and individual or family counseling when indicated.
• Provides services under the direction of a physician (who approves plan of care).
• Participates as a member for the bereavement team as assigned.
• Assumes the active role of advocate for patient / family unit.
• Develops and maintains contact with appropriate community agencies and services to promote interagency cooperation and to facilitate related referrals.
• Documents comprehensive psychosocial, emotional and spiritual assessment clearly and concisely in a timely manner.
• All patient / family visits, telephone contacts and referral actions are recorded in the patient record per policy.
• Provides ongoing counseling related to issues of death and dying to the patient and family as needed.
• Attends staff meeting, IDG and other meetings as assigned and appropriate.
• Participates in the orientation program as assigned.
• Adheres to all hospice policies.
• Assumes responsibility for own personal and professional development and maintenance of skills in social work.
• Exhibits hospice philosophy in all job-related roles.
• Other duties as assigned by Director.

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