Medical Social Worker

Location :   Pinellas County, FL.

The medical social worker is responsible for the implementation of standards of care for medical social work services.

Essential Job Functions / Responsibilities

• Assist the physician, physician assistant, or advanced registered nurse practitioner and other members of the health team in understanding significant social and emotional factors related to the patient’s health problems; need of care, response to treatment and adjustment to care.
• Assess the social and emotional factors in order to estimate the patient’s capacity and potential to cope with problems of daily living.
• Help the patient and caregiver to understand, accept and follow medical recommendations and provide services planned to restore the patient to optimum social and health adjustment.
• Assist patients and caregivers with personal and environmental difficulties which predispose toward illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care; and
• Identify resources, such as caregivers and community agencies, to assist the patient to resume life in the community, including discharge planning, or to learn to live within his disability.
• Assessment of the relationship of the beneficiary's medical and nursing requirements to the beneficiary's home situation, financial resources and availability of community resources.
• Counseling services that are required by the patient.
• Appropriate action to obtain available community resources to assist in resolving the beneficiary's problem.

Position Qualifications :

Work Education.

About Comfort Home Health Agency, Inc. :

WHO WE ARE?We are a family owned Home Health Care Agency, Inc. free Deficiency survey, operating since 1996.We provide affordable home care services to those who wished to remain in their homes but needed help with daily activities.Comfort Home Health Agency does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, or age in admission, treatment, or participation in its programs, services and activities or employment.