Social Worker

Our Company
Apreva Hospice
Overview
Our therapy team executes customized treatment plans that deliver real results and exceed patients' expectations. If you're motivated to give our clients a more positive quality of life we encourage you to apply today!
Responsibilities

• Guides and counsels individuals and families in crisis, ranging from the unemployed to children who need foster homes to elderly people who have no one to care for them
• Assists clients in obtaining government funds, education, or treatment
• Secures information, such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to client's situation, and evaluates these and client's capacities Asks clients to explain problems, such as personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, and physical and mental impairments to determine nature and degree of problem
• Helps patient and family through individual or group conferences regarding plans for meeting needs, and aids client to mobilize inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning
• Helps client to modify attitudes and patterns of behavior by increasing understanding of self, personal problems, and client's part in creating them
• Develops service plan designed to restore patient to optimum social and health adjustment within patient's capacity
• Refers clients to community resources and other organizations, and liaises with other social service agencies. Utilizes community resources to assist patient to resume life in community or to learn to live within limits of disability
• Prepares patient histories, service plans, and reports. Reviews service plan and performs follow-up to determine quantity and quality of service provided client and status of client's case
• Maintains client records in compliance with organizational goals and objectives, as well as external regulatory guidelines
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Social Work
• Five plus years clinical social work experience
• Valid and current Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Medical Social Worker license
• Ability to make psycho-social assessments and develop and implement viable care plans

About our Line of Business
At Apreva Hospice, we are committed to bringing the highest level of patient care to our patients and their families. We are able to do this by employing compassionate, skilled individuals who are committed to providing a true hospice experience for our patients. Our mission and purpose are to honor and promote dignity and quality of life for our patients and their loved ones. If you are seeking a hospice that will allow you to provide meaningful care, from day one, join our family of talented health care professionals. For more information about Apreva Hospice, please visit www.aprevahospice.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook.
Salary Range
USD $36.00 - $40.00 / Hour