Social Worker LSW Community Care Job at Northeast Healthcare Recruitment
- Full-time permanent, work seeing patients in their home, traveling around to other home locations. Work during the daytime, flexible schedule, and on-call rotation.
- Rich and competitive total rewards package including health benefits, dental, vision, life insurance, dependent care reimbursement, STD/LTD, 401k match with immediate vesting, paid time off / floating holidays, commuter/transportation (mileage) reimbursement, and educational reimbursement
LSWs are part of a team that provides compassionate care to the frailest elderly who have chronic and acute illnesses or injuries living in their homes. Our LSW delivers care and counseling to a wide variety of patients with social and behavioral problems. The LSW will be accountable for caring for patients, connecting patients and their families to support services, maintaining accurate and current patient records and scheduling and administering initial, urgent, and follow-up appointments to patients as required. The successful candidate will work as a team with our physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and care team coordinator will assist in delivering quality care to every patient. We offer a positive, upbeat work environment where all medical personnel work together for the good of the patient.
Responsibilities:
- Telephonic outreach to patients and providers requesting assistance with community resources and social determinant of health needs.
- Develop plan of care responding to patient requests and assessment outcomes.
- Provide community resource coordination for patient requests and psychosocial problems.
- Collaborate efforts with multidisciplinary team to identify and respond to patient psychosocial needs.
- Document assessment and patient encounters following standards and best practices.
- Builds rapport with patients and their families and relay all concerns to provider/IDT
- Coordinates with other healthcare providers, agencies and community resources in order to create a thorough treatment plan addressing social, cultural, and financial needs
- Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and participate in regularly scheduled team meetings
- Partner with community team to refer patients to appropriate no or low-cost community services that support health and independence such as Meals On Wheels (MOW), local Area Agencies on Aging (AAA), Senior & Assistance Programs, and transportation resources.
- Involves the patients’ families and primary caregiver(s) as needed to achieve the best care decisions and outcomes.
- Effectively collaborates with all those involved in the members’ care, including health services contractors (i.e., Home Health, Hospice, Community Agencies), to meet the patients’ care goals.
- Complies with safety policies and procedures, identifying and immediately reporting any potential or actual unsafe acts or conditions to their supervisor/team. Takes necessary measures to ensure a safe environment for oneself, co-workers, contractors, participants, visitors and others.
- Participates in program and policy development of the Social Work program.
Educational/ Experience Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in Social Work
- Two years social work experience, preferably in health care, and minimum one-year experience working with a frail/elderly population.
License, Certification, Registration
- LSW required
salary $50000 to $75000
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