DHR Health - US:TX:Edinburg - Days

Summary:

FLSA STATUS: Exempt Non-Exempt

MISSION STATEMENT:

Our Mission is to improve the well-being of those we serve with a commitment to excellence: every patient, every encounter, every time.

VISION:

Our Vision is to create a world-class health system to advance medicine and increase access for the communities we serve by empowering caregivers to heal through compassion, knowledge, innovation, integrated care and excellence.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) is responsible for providing expert-level clinical support and patient care, displaying advanced skills in completion of psychosocial assessments, develop treatment plans, and provides supportive/grief counseling, crisis intervention and group therapy, individual therapy, and family therapy. The LCSW functions as the hospice’s bereavement coordinator, playing a vital role in providing emotional, psychosocial, and grief support across the continuum and ensures the hospice program bereavement’s services meet regulatory compliance and patient/family needs.

POSITION EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS :

• Valid license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to practice in the State of Texas
• Master’s Degree in social work, counseling or psychology from an accredited university
• Valid and current Driver’s License required
• Valid and current proof of Auto Insurance required
• Must be able to be sensitive to cultural and bilingual issues.
• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
• Ability to read, write and speak English
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with all levels of nursing, administration, and physicians

JOB KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE :

• Minimum one ( 1 ) year experience working with child; adolescent, adult and geriatric/palliative care/hospice patients.
• Spanish language skills helpful
• Must demonstrate an understanding of community health, welfare, and social agencies
• Knowledge and/or strong experience with end-of-life issues
• Ability to work productively and effectively with minimal need for supervision.
• Ability to function well as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• Actively seeks opportunities for professional growth by attending educational seminars
• Basic computer knowledge
• Must have excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
• High degree of competency/experience in general.
• Requires good communication and organizational skills.
• Requires reasoning ability and good independent judgment.

Responsibilities:

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Functions as the hospice Bereavement Coordinator
• • Oversees the planning, implementation, and documentation of the hospice bereavement program in accordance with Medicare Conditions of Participation and state/federal guidelines, and following the organization’s policies and procedures
  • Conducts bereavement risk assessments and coordinate ongoing support for families after the death of a patient
  • Provides or coordinates individual counseling, grief support groups, memorial services and grief education resources
  • Maintains bereavement records and ensures timely contacts per the bereavement plan of care
  • Collaborates with hospice team members to identify families in need of high-risk bereavement support
  • Provides staff education and community outreach related to grief and bereavement
• Promotes the facility mission, vision and values by effectively communicating them to others. Considers mission, vision and values in developing services, standards and practices
• Provides direct social work services to patients and families, and/or groups
• Documents findings accurately and in a timely manner and formulate the plan of care based on findings
• Ability to represent the program well in interactions both inside and outside the hospital
• Conducts comprehensive psychosocial assessments of palliative care patients and their families
• Provides counseling, education and support to patients coping with chronic or life-limiting illness
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team (IDT) to support shared decision-making, advanced care planning, and resource coordination
• Assists families with navigating complex systems
• Serves as a liaison between patients, providers, and caregivers to address psychosocial barriers to care
• Participate in required in-services
• Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary team (IDT)
• Trains and supervises related volunteers or interns, if applicable
• Facilitates goals-of-care conversations in collaboration with providers and nursing staff
Performs related duties as required

LINES OF REPSONSIBILITIES :

(Chain-of-command)

1. Director

Other information:

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Provide excellent customer service to all DHR customers. All employees are required to attend the DHR C.A.R.E.S program which outlines the Customer Service Principals including: Commitment, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Service.

AGE SPECIFIC :

Employees must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned unit. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirement relative to his or her age.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: (ADA) :

A. Essential Duties : Indicated by bold print within performance standards, preceding individual numbered criteria.

The following table provides physical requirements that will be associated with, but not limited to, this position:

B. Working Conditions : The individual spends over 95% of his/her time in an air-conditioned environment with varying exposures to noise. There is protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The position does have low exposure to malodorous, infectious body fluids from patients and some minimal exposure to noxious smells from cleansing agents.

C. Occupational Exposure: This position has minimal to no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues and is an OSHA Category III (although situations can be imagined or hypothesized under which anyone, anywhere, might encounter potential exposure to body fluids). Person who performs these duties are not called upon as part of their employment to perform or assist in emergency medical care or first aid or to be potentially exposed in some other way.

D. Aptitudes : HIGH 1 2 3 4 5 6 LOW

Intelligence: General learning ability: The ability to “catch on” or understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments. 3

Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them, and to use them effectively. To comprehend language, to understand relationships between words, and to understand meanings of whole sentences and paragraphs. To present information or ideas clearly. 3

Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. 2

Spatial: Ability to comprehend forms in space and understands relationships of plane and solid objects. Frequently described as the ability to “visualize” objects or two or three dimensions, or to think visually of geometric forms. 2

Form Perception: Ability to perceive pertinent details and objects or in pictorial or graphic material to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures and widths and lengths of lines. 3

Clerical Perception: Ability to receive pertinent details and verbal or tabular material. To observe differences in copy, to proofread words and numbers, and to avoid perceptual errors in arithmetic computation. 2

Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate eyes and hands to fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Ability to make a movement response accurately and quickly. 3

Finger Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with fingers in placing and turning motions. 3

Manual Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with hands in placing and turning motions. 3

Eye-Hand-Foot Coordination: Ability to move the hand and foot coordinately with each other in accordance with visual stimuli. 3

Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive and respond to similarities or differences in colors, shapes, or other values of the same or different color. To identify a particular color, or to recognize harmonious or contrasting color combinations, or to match color adequately. 3

I have read and reviewed my job description with my supervisor or designee and I understand the job I am expected to perform.

If applicable ____________ certification will be completed within _________ time frame of hire/transfer date.

Employee Signature: ________________________________ Date: ____________________

Transfer/Hire Date Effective: ________________________.