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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Owensboro, KY
Owensboro, Kentucky

About this job

Responsibilities:

Encompass Home Health & Hospice is looking for a Licensed Master Social Worker to provide professional, comprehensive, family-oriented services to individuals in the home setting.

* Assess patients' and families' psychosocial, environmental, and financial needs.

* Formulate, implement, and evaluates a plan of care in collaboration with patient, family, and other caregivers, and provides case management as appropriate.

* Assist the team in understanding the social and emotional factors related to the patients' health problems.

* Maintain documentation in patient's record per internal regulatory and professional standards.

* Monitor, observe, and evaluate changes and progress in patient's condition and environment. Report changes, progress, or lack of progress to physician and/or nurse case manager.

* Acts as key source in patient situations such as: ineffective patient/family coping and decision making advance directives long term or assisted living placement substance abuse abuse/neglect and/or bereavement.

Qualifications:

* Must be a Licensed Master Social Worker in the state of employment. Must have a Master's degree from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.

* Must possess one year of social work experience in a health care setting.

* Medicare home health or hospice experience is preferred.

* Must be capable of making independent decisions relevant to client's needs.

* Must be capable of prioritizing and handling multiple tasks of critical importance simultaneously.

Overview:

Encompass Home Health & Hospice recently acquired Community Health Services and we are excited to welcome them to the Encompass Family! Encompass is one of the largest Medicare certified Home Health and Hospice service providers in the nation. Year after year, we've been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in our industry.

A few of our great benefits include:

* 30 Paid Days Off per year for Full Time employees.

* Continuing education opportunities.

* Scholarship program for employees and their children.

* Matching 401(k) plan.

Our employees think Encompass is a great place to work and it shows! We have been repeatedly honored on a national and regional basis as a "Best Place to Work".

Here are just a few of the many reasons why:

* We have been in business since 1998 and have established a stable and strong financial base.

* We have achieved consistent, double-digit growth percentages year after year.

* Our leaders, from the CEO to our local office Directors, have open door policies and care about our employees' input, satisfaction, and professional growth.

* We do not tolerate unethical behavior or questionable business practices.

* We promote our existing employees to leadership positions whenever possible.

If you are interested in this position, please APPLY NOW by completing an online application!

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