Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Social Worker, Hospice

Position Type: Permanent, Full-time
Agency: New York City health system
Location: Queens
Hours: Monay - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Salary: $64K-80K plus $15,000 Sign-on Bonus or Student Loans Assistance, paid over the course of 3 years

Our client seeks to be the premier provider of health services in the greater metropolitan area, ensuring access to health, supportive and community-based services across the continuum of need. Their range of health services include home care, hospice and palliative care for adults and children, rehabilitation and nursing care and the research-based institution for innovation in palliative care. They also offer health plans for Medicare and dual-eligible individuals. Their ability to serve at-risk members of the community is supported by the efforts of their non-for-profit foundation, which raises funds to help support their quality programs and services not reimbursed by insurance or government programs. In addition, the generosity of grateful families, private and corporate donors and grants, as well as their own employees, also support their specialized services.

Responsibilities:
Our client’s groundbreaking hospice and palliative care programs offer a significant difference when dealing with a life-limiting condition. They offer a broad range of services in the community or facility-based to help patients and their families ease the burden of managing a life-limiting illness or end of life care.

• You will provide psychosocial support and other Social Work services to Hospice patients and their families in the inpatient, home care/nursing home settings, in pre and post bereavement phases of Hospice service
• You will serve as social work member of hospice IDG and as liaison between hospice staff and inpatient and nursing home staff
• You will develop social work plan of care, goals and makes recommendations based on patient/family needs for assigned patients who are direct admission to inpatient units or nursing home/hospice residents.
• You will develop social work plan of care and discharge plans when appropriate for patients admitted into inpatient facility.

Requirements:

• Graduate from an accredited School of social work.
• Minimum of one year experience in Social Work in a healthcare setting.
• Knowledge of Word and excel preferred.
• New York State MSW licensure.
• Valid NYS Driver’s license and car required.
• Ability to work within an interdisciplinary team environment.
• Ability to input clinical data proficiently.

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Job Tags

Permanent employment, Full time, Relocation bonus,

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