Hospice Social Worker PRN (LMSW)

Serving the Tri-County- Dorchester, Charleston, and Berkeley Counties 

Seeking more balance in your social services career? This is it! As a Hospice MSW for Interim HealthCare®, you’ll have the flexibility to set your own schedule in a way that works for you and your patients.

Since 1966, Interim HealthCare has been a leading employer of LMSWs who want to make a difference in the lives of others through personalized, home-based care. It’s an opportunity to be the best medical social worker you can be without compromising your personal priorities. If that sounds like a career path, you’re ready to embark on, you are made for this!

Our Hospice Medical Social Workers enjoy some excellent benefits:

• Competitive Pay $28.00 to $32.00  DOE 
• Weekly pay - Mileage 
• 1:1 social worker-to-patient ratios where you impact outcomes
• Flexible assignments, autonomy and work-life balance
• Online training, growth and ability to earn CEUs

As a Hospice Medical Social Worker, here’s a big-picture view of what you’ll do:

• Conducts an initial psychosocial assessment of assigned patients/families within five (5) calendar days of admission to contribute to the comprehensive assessment of the patient’s/family’s needs and the IDG plan of care.
• Provides individual and/or family counseling in response to the mental and emotional status of the patient/family to reduce barriers to achieving the goals of care.
• Identifies special needs related to religious or cultural diversity and how these impact the implementation of the IDG plan of care.
• Provides counseling in response to identified anticipatory grief or pathological grief, if so qualified, or identifies alternative resources for such and provides direction to those resources.
• Evaluates identified financial or environmental concerns and directs the patient/family to appropriate community resources, as well as provides follow-up and acts as a liaison when indicated.
• Provides crisis intervention support to the patient/family, members of a facility caregiver group or the IDG.
• Provides psychosocial updates to facility staff providing short term inpatient care or respite care.
• Participates in the development of the IDG plan of care and attends regularly scheduled IDG meetings.
• Assists the attending physician and other IDG members, including facility staff, in understanding significant social and emotional factors related to death/dying issues of the patient/family.
• Participates in discharge planning for the patient/family when needed. 
• Assists the patient/family in electing advance directives, securing durable power of attorney, making funeral arrangements and other financial, legal and healthcare aspects of end-of-life choices.

A few must-haves for Hospice Medical Social Workers:

• Graduate of a Master’s program in social work accredited by the Council on
  Social Work Education.
• Licensed to practice as a Social Worker in the state in which employed.  License is active and in good standing.
• Minimum of one (1) year's experience in health care.
• Hospice experience preferred.  

• Strong interpersonal skills, good communicator, empathetic, compassionate and resourceful

Why Work for Interim HealthCare?

Founded in 1966, Interim HealthCare is the nation’s first home care company and a leading employer of Hospice Health Medical Social Workers (MSWs). Operating through 300+ offices, our commitment to you is expressed through a family-oriented culture that values and appreciates social workers, and a passion to put patients first. Join a nationwide network of MSWs who are making a significant impact in the lives of others through the home-based, social services they provide.

Interim HealthCare provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.

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