Visiting Nurse Health System (Visiting Nurse) is seeking a Medical Social Worker with experience in the Home Health space.
The ideal candidate provides social, emotional, and psychological services/counseling to terminally ill patients and their bereaved families, enabling the patient to maintain independence and remain at home. The Home Health Medical Social Worker will facilitate alternative care placement requested by patient/family to an appropriate facility.
Our values at Visiting Nurse, Respect and Integrity, Excellence, Stewardship, and Care are paramount to patient care and among our team members. If you are that special MSW that is looking for a rewarding opportunity, then we want to meet you at our office in Dunwoody, GA 30346.
About Visiting Nurse Health System
Serving the Atlanta Area for over 75 years, Visiting Nurse is a leading provider of home healthcare, long-term care at home, hospice, and palliative care services, helping patients and their loved ones receive care at home following an illness, surgery, or hospital stay.
Our vision is to be the first choice for patients, families, payers, and other healthcare providers when they need home healthcare services. To achieve patient and employee satisfaction scores and clinical outcomes within the top 10 percent of all home healthcare providers in the U.S. To continue to invest in our strong community partnerships, coordinated care solutions, top-performing workforce, and innovative technologies to improve affordability throughout the healthcare continuum. To be a financially strong organization where healthcare professionals prefer to work.
For more information about Visiting Nurse, please visit vnhs.org.
Job Summary
This position will serve the following territories: Cobb, Fulton, North Fulton, and Dekalb County.
Responsibilities
Demonstrates the skill and knowledge in counseling patients/families using a variety of clinical theories of short- & long-term interventions; including identifying social, emotional, financial & environmental needs/issues and develop appropriate intervention plan.
Demonstrates sensitivity and skill in discussing loss issues with both children and adults.
Demonstrates skill to assess the patient /family's coping ability e.g. strengths, weakness, and socio-cultural environment to develop a sound base for an instructional plan.
Demonstrates knowledge of agency policies and procedures related to social work to provide services within approved social worker parameters.
Demonstrates knowledge of eligibility criteria for federal and state services such as Medicare, Medicaid, AHS, SSI, Welfare, Veterans benefits, etc. Assists patients/families to receive benefits to which they are eligible.
Completes initial assessment on patient and family within seven days of admission to the hospice home care program or residential center.
Assists patient/patient family with necessary forms, applications, documents in a timely manner that are required by outside agencies (i.e., OLPH, SWC applications, Medicare/Medicaid revocation/election/re-certification forms).
Ensures that documentation is consistent with the format required by departmental standards (i.e., progress notes reflect care plans).
Demonstrates the ability to follow through in a thorough and timely manner on tasks assigned by management team and requests made by patients/families, referral sources, and community.
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Benefits
Salary Range
The salary range is from $56,000 to $84,000.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Visiting Nurse is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against qualified applicants based on race, color, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religious creed, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, military and veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, reproductive health decision-making, lawful off-duty use of marijuana, any other characteristic protected by law, or any combination of two or more of the characteristics listed here. If you need an accommodation to complete an online application, please contact Visiting Nurse at 404-215-6100.