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Inpatient Palliative Care Social Worker - Part Time
Job ID: 252601
Category: Social Work
Work Type: PT 20+ HOURS
Location: Plainsboro, NJ, United States
Work Schedule: Part Time
Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
Schedule: Part -Time, 20+ hours - Day shift
Summary:
The palliative care social worker is an essential member of the palliative care team. Working alongside physicians, APP's and chaplains to provide patients and families with consistent and compassionate care. The palliative care social worker conducts psychosocial assessments, provides supportive counseling, coordinates and facilitates goals of care discussions, and streamlines care across the care teams for patients and families facing serious or life-threatening illness.
The palliative care social worker is responsible for providing and documenting individualized, person-centered psychosocial assessment, advance care planning, discharge planning and on-going emotional support for individuals with serious illnesses and their families within an acute care hospital setting. As part of the interdisciplinary consultative palliative care team the social worker in addition to this team will collaborate with members of various other medical teams caring for patients during their hospitalization. The palliative care social worker is responsible for ensuring continuity of care and a medical care plan and discharge plan that are both in alignment with the patient and family goals of care.
Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary palliative care consultation service team of physicians, advance practice providers, chaplains, and other learners to provide supportive care to patients with serious illnesses and their families.
- Effectively communicate and coordinate with interdisciplinary members of various medical teams caring for palliative care patients in order to ensure continuity of care and to help facilitate complex discharge planning in collaboration with the patient’s primary social worker.
- Complete psychosocial assessments with focus on patient and families level of coping with serious illness and advance care planning.
- Provide ongoing emotional support and psychoeducation to patients and families in coping with disease progression death/dying process.
- Provide psychoeducation to patients and families regarding advance care planning and help facilitate completion of advance directive documents when appropriate.
- Facilitate and co-facilitate family meetings to identify and address goals of care.
- Document in electronic medical record in a timely manner utilizing appropriate palliative care psychosocial assessment, advance care planning and discharge planning tools.
- Maintain relationships with palliative care and hospice community agencies and keep up-to-date on relative resources and laws regarding advance care planning.
- Plan, facilitate and participate in palliative care educational programs for interdisciplinary staff both within the hospital and across the health system.
Credentials:
- Active Social Work license in the state of New Jersey (LSW) required
- Certification in Palliative Care required
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- Masters of Social Work from graduate school of social work approved by the Council on Social Work Education Required
- Preferred 2-year related health care experience; at least 1 year of related palliative care experience preferred
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