Social Worker (Home Health) - Home Health Hospice - Day

Job description

Schedule Part Time , Day Shift (40 hours biweekly) Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00a-4:30p (Varied) General Summary: Plans, organizes and implements social work services for patients and families. Essential Functions: - Interviews patients and family members to obtain information about home environment, family relationships, health history, and patient's personality traits. - Evaluates data gathered in terms of the medical plan of treatment, available social service programs, and plans a pertinent therapy program that will provide each patient with maximum benefit. - Assists patients and families to understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations. - Utilizes resources to help patient resume life in the community or to learn to live with the disability. - Interprets nature of illness and prescribed course of treatment to patients and families. Communicates family issues to other staff members. Participates in planning conferences. - May assist in developing discharge and post-hospital care plans and/or serve as a liaison between home care and hospital staff. - Collaborates with other hospital programs and community agencies with which patients and families are involved. - Perform...