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Vynca

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare Insurance • Healthcare • Wellness

Vynca is dedicated to helping patients with serious illnesses, such as cancer and heart failure, by providing expert palliative care services. Their comprehensive approach includes clinical care, social support, mental health counseling, and advance care planning, ensuring that patients receive compassionate, coordinated assistance at home or remotely. Vynca's mission is to enhance the quality of life for patients by managing symptoms, providing emotional support, and facilitating open discussions about healthcare goals and preferences.

📋 Description

• Conducts comprehensive psychosocial assessments to identify patient and family strengths, barriers, and support needs through video technology and telephone calls • Provides grief and bereavement support to patients and families, including anticipatory grief counseling and funeral service assistance • Screens for and addresses mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, and caregiver stress • Assesses for safety risks including suicide ideation, abuse, neglect, and unsafe living conditions • Participates in weekly interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings to discuss patient care plans • Provides medical social work case management to a given group of patients and their families • Assesses and responds to the psychosocial, practical, financial, and legal concerns of the patients and families/support systems • Assists patients and families in accessing and using community resources • Assists patients and families with the navigation of social and healthcare systems • Mediates conflicts between families and care networks • Completes financial needs assessments and assists with navigation on MediCare, MediCal, Disability and Social Security and Veterans Affairs benefits • Assesses for spiritual and medical needs and communicates these promptly to interdisciplinary team • Establishes and maintains relationships with community resources • Identifies problems, goals, interventions and frequency of visits to complete the social work Plan of Care • Facilitates advance care planning, including advance directive and POLST completion • Completes documentation within 48 hours • Assumes other duties in support of Vynca’s needs as directed by the Clinical Manager or Chief Medical Officer • Assists with community outreach and education regarding Vynca services • Ability to travel to perform job duties, attend training, or company events

🎯 Requirements

• New Jersey LCSW, LMFT, or LPCC, required • 2+ years of health care social work experience • Experience in hospice, palliative care, oncology or home health • Palliative care certification, highly preferred • Strong understanding of cultural competency with medicaid population • Excellent oral and written communication skills, with positive interpersonal skills • Must have general computer skills and a working knowledge of MS Office, G-Suite, and the internet • Proficiency in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system and other business systems, such as Salesforce and Athena

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Income protection benefits • Flexible PTO • Company holidays • 401k • Access to other wellness benefits • Mileage reimbursement for field roles per IRS guidelines