Medical Social Worker II - Hospice

A Day in the Life

• Provides social work services including short-term individual counseling, community resource planning and crisis intervention counseling, community resource planning and crisis intervention.
• Assesses of the client’s psychosocial status, emotional factors related to illness, environmental resources and obstacles to maintaining safety, the patient/family psychosocial status and response to psychosocial interventions, family dynamics and communication patterns, potential for risk of suicide and/or abuse or neglect.
• Participates in effective interdisciplinary care coordination, identification of problems, development of a plan of care, adherence to the plan of care and discharge planning.
• Identifies and utilizes appropriate community resources and assesses patient/family ability to access them. Evaluates patient/family response to interventions when referred to community agency and satisfaction of the services provided.
• Records in a timely manner evaluation data, progress notes, and interventions including client and family’s response to interventions in the electronic medical record.

What’s Required

• Master's degree in Social Work from the Council on Social Work Education.
• Current Michigan License as a Master’s Social Worker required.
• 2 years of clinical or family work experience. Home care or hospice experience preferred.

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