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About the Role

Niagara Hospice is seeking a full-time Medical Social Worker to provide clinical social work services to patients and families within the Hospice program.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients in facilitating their goals per patient choice.
• Address anticipatory grief issues and provide nursing home information to patients and families.
• Provide patients and families with volunteer services information.
• Assist with health teaching and disease progression.
• Conduct suicide prevention and lethality assessments.
• Mediate and advocate for patient choices.
• Assess families for potential complicated mourning, disenfranchised grief, or psychopathological history, and refer for pre-bereavement and/or mental health services as warranted.
• Identify and coordinate a plan to meet psychosocial needs and services with other patient/family needs and services being addressed by the team.
• Participate in assessments, admissions, discharge planning, service availability, plan design, implementation of services, review of services, and evaluation responsibilities of the team.
• Provide special awareness in the identification and dealing of psychosocial stresses of patients and families in accordance with their own cultural and spiritual beliefs as they go through anticipatory grief, the dying process, and death.
• Establish necessary service provider linkages with allied health and social service agencies on behalf of the Hospice patient/family, with appropriate advocacy.
• Maintain confidential, accurate, timely, legible, detailed, and professionally written records as required by Niagara Hospice and consistent with State, Federal, Third party payor regulations.
• Coordinate delivery of services to maximize effectiveness and eliminate duplication with contracted and/or cooperating social service units of hospitals, DSS, and other public and private agencies.
• Participate in the Social Work on-call system.

Requirements

• A minimum of one (1) year experience in a social service agency adhering to acceptable standards.

Work Type

• Full-time
• 37.5 hours per week

Experience Level

• 1 year experience in a social service agency

Education Level

• Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW) from a college or university accredited by the Council on Social Work Education

Salary/Compensations

• The pay range displayed on this job posting reflects the anticipated range for this position. This is not inclusive of the value of the benefits package, which includes, among other benefits, healthcare/dental/vision, PTO, and retirement.

Benefits

• Consistent Monday – Friday schedule
• Health insurance with fully paid employer option for yourself and family
• Company paid long-term disability insurance and life insurance
• 19 days of PTO time your first year with increases based on years of service
• Paid holidays
• 403b for retirement saving
• Dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• Company Pension with employer contribution after 1 year of service
• On-Call stipend provided for additional earnings

About the Company

• Niagara Hospice is looking for a team of compassionate care givers.

Equal Opportunity

• EOE