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Per Diem Hospice Medical Social Worker (146671) - Full-time / Part-time
•30 days ago
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Athens, TX Athens, Texas |
About this job
I believe that the care we give can make every moment count.
Compassionate care, uncompromising service and clinical excellence -- that's how our Hospice improves quality of life in the final stages of life. By delivering palliative care by hospice professionals, our patients can spend their remaining days in comfort and peace. Kindred at Home, a division of Kindred Healthcare Inc., is the nation's leading provider of comprehensive home health, hospice, and non-medical home care services.
Kindred at Home, and its affiliates, including Gentiva, delivers compassionate, high-quality care to patients and clients in their homes or places of residence, including non-medical personal assistance, skilled nursing and rehabilitation and hospice and palliative care. Our caregivers focus on each unique patient to deliver the appropriate care and emotional support to our patients and their families.
We believe that every moment matters. We believe in compassionate care. Most of all, we believe in dignity and respect for each patient we serve.
As a Hospice Medical Social Worker, you will:
* Provide wide range of psychosocial services to terminally ill patients and their families.
* Regularly assess the patient and family psychosocial needs.
* Regularly assess the pre-bereavement/anticipatory grief needs.
* Implement the Plan of Care provisions to meet their needs, which include: social service goals for alleviating problems, supportive counseling, problem solving, community referrals pre-bereavement and bereavement care.
* Regularly re-evaluate the patient's and family's psychosocial needs.
Required Skills
Qualifications
* Master's Degree from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
* Minimum of two year social work experience in a healthcare setting or social services agency
* Current Social Worker license
* Hospice experience a plus
* Knowledge of and ability to obtain community resources (information and referral, state/federal financial programs and eligibility requirements, etc.).
* Understand Hospice philosophy, principles of death/dying
* Strong organizational and communication skills
Required Experience
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Compassionate care, uncompromising service and clinical excellence -- that's how our Hospice improves quality of life in the final stages of life. By delivering palliative care by hospice professionals, our patients can spend their remaining days in comfort and peace. Kindred at Home, a division of Kindred Healthcare Inc., is the nation's leading provider of comprehensive home health, hospice, and non-medical home care services.
Kindred at Home, and its affiliates, including Gentiva, delivers compassionate, high-quality care to patients and clients in their homes or places of residence, including non-medical personal assistance, skilled nursing and rehabilitation and hospice and palliative care. Our caregivers focus on each unique patient to deliver the appropriate care and emotional support to our patients and their families.
We believe that every moment matters. We believe in compassionate care. Most of all, we believe in dignity and respect for each patient we serve.
As a Hospice Medical Social Worker, you will:
* Provide wide range of psychosocial services to terminally ill patients and their families.
* Regularly assess the patient and family psychosocial needs.
* Regularly assess the pre-bereavement/anticipatory grief needs.
* Implement the Plan of Care provisions to meet their needs, which include: social service goals for alleviating problems, supportive counseling, problem solving, community referrals pre-bereavement and bereavement care.
* Regularly re-evaluate the patient's and family's psychosocial needs.
Required Skills
Qualifications
* Master's Degree from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
* Minimum of two year social work experience in a healthcare setting or social services agency
* Current Social Worker license
* Hospice experience a plus
* Knowledge of and ability to obtain community resources (information and referral, state/federal financial programs and eligibility requirements, etc.).
* Understand Hospice philosophy, principles of death/dying
* Strong organizational and communication skills
Required Experience
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.