Hospice Travel Social Worker

Moments Hospice; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company car with fuel and insurance

Comprehensive health, dental, and vis

Generous PTO

401(k) with company matching

Job summary

Moments Hospice is seeking a Hospice Social Worker to travel to new locations, helping each site through survey and startup. The temporary assignment typically lasts 13–26 weeks.

You will provide psychosocial services to terminally ill patients and families, perform case management, and ensure charting within deadlines. A MSW and current license are required, hospice experience is a plus, with strong organizational and communication skills.

Qualifications

• MSW from a CSWE-accredited program.
• Minimum of two years of social work experience in a healthcare setting or social services.
• Current Social Worker license.
• Hospice experience a plus.
• Knowledge of community resources and eligibility requirements for state/federal programs.
• Understand hospice philosophy and death/dying processes.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychosocial services to terminally ill patients and their families.
• Make contact with patient, family, and caregiver within 48 hours of admission.
• Perform case management duties.
• Ensure psychosocial notes are in the patient chart within 24 hours of completion.
• Regularly assess the patient and family psychosocial needs.
• Assess pre-bereavement/anticipatory grief needs.
• Implement the Plan of Care with social goals and referrals.
• Regularly re-evaluate psychosocial needs.
• Participate in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Assist with funeral arrangements if requested.
• Provide counseling during terminal illness and at time of death if requested.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

Master's Degree in Social Work

Job description

This position will be traveling to new locations helping the location go thru survey and get up and running . The temporary assignment would typically last 13 -26 weeks.

Social workers looking for autonomy and variety should consider practicing in Hospice Care. As aHospice Social Workerat Moments Hospice, you will join a team that is dedicated to making our patients' final days, weeks, and months as comfortable as possible.

Responsibilities:

• As a Hospice Licensed Medical (LMSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW), you will:
• Provide wide range of psychosocial services to terminally ill patients and their families.
• Responsible for making contact with patient, family, and caregiver within 48 hours of admission.
• Case Manager duties.
• Psychosocial must become part of patient's chart within 24 hours of completion.
• Regularly assess the patient and family psychosocial needs.
• Regularly assess the pre-bereavement/anticipatory grief needs.
• Implement the Plan of Care provisions to meet their needs, which include: social service goals for alleviating problems, supportive counseling, problem solving, community referrals pre-bereavement and bereavement care.
• Regularly re-evaluate the patient's and family's psychosocial needs.
• Participate in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Assist with making funeral arrangements if requested.
• Provide counseling during the process of the terminal illness and at the time of death if requested.

Qualifications:

• Masters Degree from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
• Minimum of two year social work experience in a healthcare setting or social services agency
• Current Social Worker license
• Hospice experience a plus
• Knowledge of and ability to obtain community resources (information and referral, state/federal financial programs and eligibility requirements, etc.).
• Understand Hospice philosophy, principles of death/dying
• Strong organizational and communication skills

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Company car with fuel and insurance covered
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO accruing immediately
• 401(k) with company matching

$70,000 - $80,000 a year