Res-Care - Murfreesboro, TN
posted 16 days ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Murfreesboro, TN
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
About the position
Adoration Home Health is currently seeking a full time Social Worker - LMSW to support our home health patients in Rutherford and Bedford Counties (Murfreesboro and Shelbyville). The home health Social Worker will make intermittent home-visits to our skilled nursing patients in a particular area. Discover the flexibility a career in home health can bring. Apply today!
Responsibilities
- Guides and counsels individuals and families in crisis, ranging from the unemployed to children who need foster homes to elderly people who have no one to care for them
- Assists clients in obtaining government funds, education, or treatment
- Secures information, such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to client's situation, and evaluates these and client's capacities
- Asks clients to explain problems, such as personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, and physical and mental impairments to determine nature and degree of problem
- Helps patient and family through individual or group conferences regarding plans for meeting needs, and aids client to mobilize inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Social Work
- Five plus years clinical social work experience
- Valid and current Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Medical Social Worker license
- Ability to make psycho-social assessments and develop and implement viable care plans
Benefits
- Flexible schedules
- Competitive pay + mileage reimbursement
- 401K with company match!
- Tuition reimbursement and other discounts
