Medical Social Worker

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $40 / hour

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Cabrillo Hospice

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11 - 50 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤝 Non-profit

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare Insurance • Non-profit • Wellness

Cabrillo Hospice is dedicated to providing compassionate hospice care, focusing on delivering patient-centered services primarily in the home. They emphasize a community-based approach to healthcare, seeking to return hospice to its roots beyond the confines of corporate healthcare. Cabrillo Hospice offers comprehensive care management, including medication management, spiritual care support, social work advocacy, and a 24-hour response team. Their mission is anchored in fostering meaningful relationships with patients and their families, ensuring a holistic care experience that attends to the mind, body, and soul during life's final transition.

📋 Description

• The Medical Social Worker assesses the psychosocial status of patients and families/caregivers related to the patient's terminal illness and environment and communicates findings to the registered nurse and other members of the interdisciplinary group. • Provides an assessment in the patient's identified residence and assistance when this is not safe, and another plan is required. • Carries out social evaluations, including family dynamics, caregiver abilities, communication patterns, high risks for suicide, neglect or abuse and plans intervention based on evaluation findings. • Counsels' patient and family/caregivers as needed in relationship to stress, and other identified coping difficulties. • Provides crisis intervention when necessary. • Assesses for, and educates interdisciplinary group, on any special needs related to the culture of the patient and family. • Includes communication, role of family, space, and any special traditions or taboos. • Maintains clinical records on all patients referred to social work prepares clinical and progress notes. • Educates patients and families on, and assists in, preparation of advanced directives. • The Medical Social Worker provides information and referral services for organization patients and families/caregivers regarding practical and environmental needs. • Provides information to patients and families/caregivers and community agencies. • Serves as liaison between patients and families/caregivers and community agencies. • The Medical Social Worker maintains collaborative relationships with organization personnel to support patient care. • Maintains and develops contracts with public and private agencies as resources for patient and personnel. • Participates in the development of the individualized plan of care, involving the patient and family, and attends regularly scheduled interdisciplinary group meetings, assisting the team in recognizing the effects of the psychosocial stresses on the symptoms of the terminal illness. • Assists physician and other team members in understanding significant social and emotional factors related to health problems and death/dying issues. • The Social Worker actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities. • Assists family and patient in planning for funeral arrangements, financial, legal, and health care decision responsibilities. Other duties as delegated by the Clinical Supervisor/Nursing Supervisor.

🎯 Requirements

• A graduate of a bachelor’s program in social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. • Meets personnel qualifications stated in §418.114(b)(3). • Minimum of one (1) years' experience in health care, hospice experience preferred. • Understands hospice philosophy, and issues of death/dying. • Experience in a hospice care preferred. • Demonstrates good verbal and written communication, and organization skills. • Possesses and maintains current CPR Certification. • Must be licensed with an automobile that is insured in accordance with state and/or organization requirements and is in good working order.