Hospice Licensed Masters Social Worker

Great Lakes Home Health Services - East Lansing, MI

Full-time - Entry Level

East Lansing, MI

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

The Medical Social Worker at Elara Caring plays a crucial role in providing high-quality home care to patients by assessing their psychosocial, financial, and environmental needs. This position emphasizes the importance of compassionate care and teamwork, ensuring that each patient receives the right care at the right time in their preferred home setting. The Medical Social Worker will work autonomously, develop care plans, and collaborate with healthcare professionals to enhance patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that all activities performed align with the vision of Elara Caring's board of directors, executive team, and the leadership of the Home Health team.
• Assesses patients to identify the psychosocial, financial, and environmental needs of patients as evidenced by documentation, clinical records, case conferences, team report, call-in logs, and on-site evaluations.
• Makes the initial social work evaluation visit and reevaluates the patient's social work needs during each following visit.
• Communicates significant findings, problems, and changes in condition or environment to the Supervisor, the physician and/or other personnel involved with patient care.
• Reports unsafe conditions and the outcome of each visit to the appropriate Supervisor by the end of the day.
• Implements the plan for patient safety, using patient, family, and community resources.
• Participates in implementation and development of the Plan of Care to ensure quality and continuity of care and proper discharge planning.
• Verifies the Plan of Care prior to each visit and provides care according to physician's orders, assessment data, and established standards and guidelines.
• Initiates and revises the Plan of Care in response to identified patient care issues.
• Writes physician orders to cover additional visits and changes to the plan of care, per agency policy.
• Incorporates patient care goals established in the plan of care, as evidenced by documentation in clinical note.
• Performs appropriate skilled services/interventions in accordance with accepted standards of practice and certified by the patient's physician.
• Counsels, instructs, and includes the patient and family in following the Plan of Care and meeting social work-related needs.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or Doctoral Degree in Social Work from a school of Social Work accredited by the Council of Social Work Education
• 1+ year of social work experience in a healthcare setting
• Current State License as a Social Worker
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Work autonomy and flexible schedules
• 1:1 patient care
• Supportive and collaborative environment
• Competitive compensation package
• Tuition reimbursement for full-time staff and continuing education opportunities for all employees
• Comprehensive insurance plans for medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(K) with employer match
• Paid time off, paid holidays, family and pet bereavement
• Pet insurance