Saco, Maine
Medical Social Worker Job Opening in Saco, Maine - Able Home Health is currently seeking a part time Medical Social Worker. Flexible schedule, you make your own schedule based on your availability and the patient's needs.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Coordinates care planning and delivery with the physician, client and family/caregivers, other healthcare team members and Agency staff to promote optimal client outcome.
Ensures that changes in client?s clinical status are communicated to other health team members and Agency office staff verbally and in writing in a timely manner.
Educates clients, their families /caregivers and other staff members as appropriate, in appropriate medical social work modalities and interventions.
Acquires physician orders for certification and recertification of home medical social services.
Provides medical social work modalities and interventions suitable to the client?s clinical status and needs and in accordance with the standard of care for client?s age.
Provides, adjust or cease medical social work modalities and interventions established upon an ongoing of the clients clinical status and in accordance with physician orders.
Combines assessment data and analyzes data to formulate a clinical finding on client management.
Delivers medical social work modalities in a setting that optimizes client safety and reduces the possibility of medical/health care errors.
Recognizes possibility of injuries or threats to life and health in the client?s environment.
Carries out transfer and discharge planning task in compliance with Agency policy
Partakes in interdisciniplary team conferences per Agency policy.
Upholds current knowledge of community resources. Recognizes and utilizes external and internal resources to meet client and/or family needs and to promote optimal client outcomes while services are being provided from the Agency, and for transfer and discharge processes.
Come join a caring, compassionate, patient centered individualized approach, growing innovative Team!
Job Type: Part-time
Required education:
Master's
Required experience:
Healthcare: 1 year
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