Hospice Field Social Worker - St. Louis and Washington, MO - Full-time / Part-time

What makes your clinical career greater with UnitedHealth Group? You can improve the health of others and help heal the health care system. You can work with in an incredible team culture; a clinical and business collaboration that is learning and evolving every day. And, when you contribute, you'll open doors for yourself that simply do not exist in any other organization, anywhere.
 
The Hospice Field Social Worker is a member if the interdisciplinary team whose primary function is to provide diagnostic assessments of the psychosocial and economic needs of the patient/family unit, define social service goals for alleviating these needs and help provide both the counseling and casework needed to meet these goals.
 
*Standard hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm, 1 night a week on call 5:00pm - 8:00am and rotating weekend call, Friday 5:00pm - 8:00am Monday*
 
*This is a full time position that requires travel throughout our hospice service area*
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Visiting patients to assess care and provide pain / symptom control support for grief, anxiety and feelings at end of life
Managing a case load of Hospice patients / families
Participating in care conferences and working in interdisciplinary teams
Supporting the patients’ families with funeral arrangements, psychosocial needs, community resources, etc.
Attending weekly interdisciplinary team meetings
Maintaining hospice patients’ charts and other documentation
Participating in a required rotating on call schedule that includes nights, weekends and holidays
Must travel to nursing home facilities daily throughout the St. Louis and Washington (Franklin county)



 
 
 
 

Required Qualifications:

Master's Degree-level clinician in Social Work
Licensure in the following: LMSW and or LCSW
2 years of Social Work experience
Computer proficiency with MS Office products including Word and Outlook
Preferred Qualifications:

Hospice experience
Experience working with patient and families dealing with life-threatening illness and death
Bilingual (English, Spanish)
Experience working with community resources
Home health experience
Long term care experience
 
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.(sm)
 
 
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
 
 
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