Medical Social Worker, Full-Time - Hospice and Home Health Care

Preceptor Home Health & Hospice is growing!

We are a home health, hospice, and palliative care agency providing services in patient homes in 15 counties throughout Wisconsin. Patient homes include private residences, assisted living facilities, memory care units, and resident care apartment complexes. Preceptor strives to provide high quality care through our multifaceted programs including home health, hospice, and palliative care. We have branch offices located in Germantown, Fond du Lac, Waukesha, Sheboygan, Appleton, and Racine.

We are currently in need of a

Full-Time Social Worker

for our Home Care and Hospice Divisions in our Racine and Kenosha County territories.

Our clients reside in assisted living facilities, their private home, or wherever home may be. We bring our services to our clients. Come help us make a difference in people's lives at their most difficult time. Help provide resources and support to patients and their families. This position allows you to think outside the box when supporting our patients, families, facilities, and our hospice and home health teams.

Qualifications for the right Social Worker:

• Social Worker means an individual who is currently licensed to practice social work in the State of Wisconsin
• Master's Degree preferred. Must be a graduate from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
• Bachelor's Degree accepted when accompanied by one year of hospice experience.
• Hospice and Home Health experience preferred, but not necessary. We are willing to train the suitable candidate to set them up for success.
• Great communication skills, both verbal and in writing
• Compassionate and hard working
• Driver's license and auto insurance

Position Responsibilities:

As a Home Health and Hospice Social Worker, you will provide wide range of psychosocial services to terminally ill patients and their families.

HOSPICE

• Participate in the hospice admission process with the hospice nurse
• Regularly assess the patient and family psychosocial needs as well as assess the pre-bereavement/anticipatory grief needs.
• Collaborate with the hospice IDG, patient, family, and facility where the patient may reside
• Create and implement the Social Work Plan of Care provisions to meet the patient needs
• Regularly re-evaluate the patient's and family's psychosocial needs.
• Attend weekly IDG meetings and meetings
• Participate in on-call rotation with the social work and chaplain team members as assigned

HOME HEALTH

• Provide information on resources to families
• Help with future planning
• One-on-one education about health and wellness, tailored to patients' needs, home routines and goals.

Additional Information:

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance offered
• Flexibility in scheduling to aide in work/life balance
• Paid mileage
• Accrued PTO and sick time
• Paid holidays
• 401K with employer contribution

We would love the opportunity to add you to our team!

If you feel this is for you, please apply today!