Social Worker-Hospice, PRN

Job description

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference. Job Summary: Delivers varied social work services to Hospice patients and their families. Provides initial emotional, spiritual, psychosocial assessments, ongoing counseling, bereavement services and community education, outreach and referral. Integral part of the Hospice IDG. Services are provided in accordance with accepted standards of professional practice and the policies and procedures of Prisma Health. Essential Functions: All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference Initiates contact with the patient/family within 48 hrs. of Hospice admission to assess psychosocial needs, financial resources, stability of the caregiving situation and the patient's end of life wishes, and risk factors that may affect the delivery of care. Offers support to the patient /family based upon their belief system, recognizing and appreciating the age, cultural and religious differences of the individuals. Plans/offers age-appropriate interventions, based upon knowledge of the stages of development and end of life issues: Pediatrics, Adul...