Social Worker, MSW Socorro Area Job Opening

Social Worker MSW

Position Requirements :

• Master’s degree in Social Work.
• Current unrestricted licensure in the State of New Mexico to practice as a MSW.
• A minimum of three years working in a home health and/or hospice care environment preferred or five years of clinical experience.
• Proven leadership skills and the ability to build a team approach to patient care.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized and non standardized situations.
• Integral part of the IDG in establishing the plan of care.
• Social work services are provided by a qualified social worker who has clinical experience relevant to counseling and casework needs of patients and families, in accordance with the plan of care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Adheres to agency, state, and federal regulations.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skill of the agency complaint, abuse, neglect and exploitation process and state/federal guidelines and DOH Incident Reporting Policy and Procedure.
• Assists in the training of the hospice support staff in care delivery to the hospice patient and family.
• Identifying the patient and family’s psychosocial needs and coping skills.
• Providing interventions for specific psychosocial symptom relief as needed: enhancing the strengths of the family system.
• Consulting, collaborating, and contributing to the development of a plan of care by the IDG for all patients on hospice service.
• Assessing bereavement risk, and referring for ongoing bereavement services
• Providing holistic family-centered care across treatment settings and bereavement follow-up for high-risk family members/caregivers; screening for psychopathology and educating and intervening as necessary.
• Connecting the patient, family, and caregiver with community resources
• Documenting psychosocial assessment, goals, care provided, and patient/family response to interventions.
• Involving the patient and family in the treatment plan.
• Participating in in-service programs.
• Strong organization and time management skills.
• Proven understanding of clinical assessment including use of Quality Assurance Program (QAPI), community resources, bereavement and pastoral counseling.

Salary is DOE.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Salary: $23.00 to $30.00 /hour

Experience:

• social work: 1 year (Preferred)

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Location:

• Socorro, NM (Preferred)

License:

• LISW or LCSW (Preferred)
• MSW (Required)

Required travel:

• 100% (Preferred)