Ambulatory Social Worker - Palliative Medicine and Support Care - FT - Day

Position Status:

Full time

Shift:

First Shift (Days - Less than 12 hours per shift) (United States of America)

Hours per week:

40

Job Information
Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

A Brief Overview
The Ambulatory Social Worker provides psychosocial support to patients with chronic disease through interdisciplinary collaboration, with the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care team. Provides social work services to patients, families, and caregivers who have a life-threatening illness during a time of change and uncertainty associated with disability, loss and grief. Provides support for grief and bereavement services provided in the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care (PM&SC).

Experience Qualifications

• Experience in customer service. Preferred
• Practicum experience or work experience in clinical setting dealing with families. Preferred
• Experience in group work, case work, and community methodologies. Preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• Licensed Bachelor Social Worker - KSBSRB Temporary licensure may be accepted at hire. Full licensure must be achieved upon expiration date of temporary license. Required or
• Licensed Masters Social Worker - KSBSRB Temporary licensure may be accepted at hire. Full licensure must be achieved upon expiration date of temporary license. Required
• Advanced Certified Hospice & Palliative Care Social Worker (ACHP-SW) - NASW - Magnet Preferred

What you will do

• Participates in patient admission process (Inpatient, Outpatient, PHP, IOP) a) assists as needed with signing of voluntary papers, b) serves as hospital representative and patient advocate.
• Coordinates and facilitates services for patients and their families throughout the entire Stormont Vail Health system.
• Performs social work assessments, demonstrating awareness of the bio-psychosocial, cultural, developmental and spiritual ramifications of illness and hospitalization.
• Develops appropriate case management and/or treatment plan based upon assessment, client/family/caregiver specific concerns and recommendations of multidisciplinary care team.
• Addresses patient/family/caregiver understanding of and adjustment to the illness, to maximize benefits of intervention and enhance patient/family/caregiver functioning. Establishes supportive and therapeutic working relationship with patient/family/caregivers. Communicates in a clear and concise manner with patients/families/caregivers regarding patient status and progress. Evaluate and manage patient/family/caregivers psychosocial problems including conflict, isolation, treatment decisions, quality-of-life issues and transitions in care, advance directives, domestic violence, coping, anxiety, communication and functional changes.
• In the process of restoring the patient’s capacity for social functioning: o Initiates discharge planning upon admission. o Is responsible for assuring these plans are coordinated with internal and external multidisciplinary teams and are implemented. o Initiates and develops long term planning designed to reduce recidivism, referrals are to be made as indicated
• Maintains and modifies, as appropriate, the bereavement process for families of patients who die while under the care of PM&SC, This includes; o Providing telephone grief support interventions o Assessing need for a more formal bereavement service o Refer families to external bereavement support groups
• Provides liaison function between Palliative care team and community hospice, home care agencies, long-term care facilities and other community services as needed to assist the patient to continue life in community or to learn to live within the limits of disability. o Participates in performance improvement initiatives. o Coordinates educational and outreach services relevant to the social/palliative care interface.
• Provides liaison function between Palliative care team and hospital quality improvement, discharge planning, and external social service departments. o Participates in performance improvement initiatives. o Coordinates educational and outreach services relevant to the social/palliative care interface.
• Provides problem solving and leadership in the development of new services which respond to patient care demands.
• Maintains confidentiality and complies with professional ethics according to professional, departmental and Medical Center standards.
• Actively participates and initiates when appropriate in patient care conferences.
• Provide patient education regarding diagnosis and treatment.
• Provide crisis and/or brief therapy for individual, family and group.
• Assess patient and family functioning at time of discharge or referral to another provider.

Required for All Jobs

• Complies with all policies, standards, mandatory training and requirements of Stormont Vail Health
• Performs other duties as assigned

Patient Facing Options

• Position is Patient Facing

Remote Work Guidelines

• Workspace is a quiet and distraction-free allowing the ability to comply with all security and privacy standards.
• Stable access to electricity and a minimum of 25mb upload and internet speed.
• Dedicate full attention to the job duties and communication with others during working hours.
• Adhere to break and attendance schedules agreed upon with supervisor.
• Abide by Stormont Vail’s Remote Worker Policy and will review and acknowledge the Remote Work Agreement annually.

Remote Work Capability

• Hybrid

Scope

• No Supervisory Responsibility
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• No Budget Responsibility No Budget Responsibility

Physical Demands

• Balancing: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Carrying: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Climbing (Ladders): Rarely less than 1 hour
• Climbing (Stairs): Rarely less than 1 hour
• Crawling: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Crouching: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Driving (Automatic): Rarely less than 1 hour
• Driving (Standard): Rarely less than 1 hour
• Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Feeling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Grasping (Fine Motor): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Grasping (Gross Hand): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Handling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Hearing: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Kneeling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Lifting: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 50 lbs
• Operate Foot Controls: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Pulling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Pushing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Reaching (Forward): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Reaching (Overhead): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Repetitive Motions: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Sitting: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Standing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Stooping: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Talking: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Walking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours

Working Conditions

• Burn: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Chemical: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Combative Patients: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Dusts: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Electrical: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Explosive: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Extreme Temperatures: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Infectious Diseases: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Mechanical: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Needle Stick: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Noise/Sounds: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Other Atmospheric Conditions: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Poor Ventilation, Fumes and/or Gases: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Radiant Energy: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Risk of Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Risk of Exposure to Hazardous Drugs: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Hazards (other): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Vibration: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Wet and/or Humid: Rarely less than 1 hour

Stormont Vail is an equal opportunity employer and adheres to the philosophy and practice of providing equal opportunities for all employees and prospective employees, without regard to the following classifications: race, color, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, uniformed service, disability or genetic information. This applies to all aspects of employment practices including hiring, firing, pay, benefits, promotions, lateral movements, job training, and any other terms or conditions of employment.

Retaliation is prohibited against any person who files a claim of discrimination, participates in a discrimination investigation, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment act based upon the above classifications.