Job description
Status
: Per Diem
Shift: DAY SHIFT
Department: Home Care
Position Summary
Summary:
Provides Social Work services to patients of all ages in their homes. Identifies and analyzes the social and emotional factors underlying client illness and communicates these factors to the health care team. Assists patients and their families in understanding and accepting treatment to permanent and temporary effects of illness. Provides direct and indirect social work services.
Provides Social Work services to patients of all ages in their homes. Identifies and analyzes the social and emotional factors underlying client illness and communicates these factors to the health care team. Assists patients and their families in understanding and accepting treatment to permanent and temporary effects of illness. Provides direct and indirect social work services.
Qualifications
Responsibilities:
Education Required
Experience And Skills
License/Certifications
Education Required
- Must complete in-house orientation program
- Master’s Degree in Social work (MSW)
Experience And Skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Speaks, reads and writes English
- One (1) year in a health care setting as a medical social worker accustomed to working as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team. Home care experience preferred.
- Ability to obtain information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs as appropriate to their age.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients and their families and with professional associates.
- Ability to keep records and prepare reports.
- Knowledge of growth and development.
- Knowledge of the range of treatment needed by patients as appropriate to their age.
- Knowledge of health insurance plans primarily Medicare, Medicaid & Blue Cross.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Computer proficiency
License/Certifications
- Current license/registration to practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in NYS (LMSW or LCSW)
Working Conditions
Other information:
Working Conditions
Working Conditions
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worn
- Ability to communicate with people via telephone and in person.
- Ability to transport oneself to patient’s homes under all weather conditions.
- Ability to negotiate architectural barriers in patient’s homes.
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