You’ll need
Licensure
✓PA: Licensed Social Worker (LSW)
Certifications
✓Equivalent experience of licensure may be considered where allowable by State Regulations. (i.e. a BSW in FL or WI) License and/or Certification if required by State
✓WI: Social Worker Certificate
Education
✓Masters of Social Work required from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, unless grandfathered in per the 2008 Medicare Hospice Condition of Participation
✓AL: Licensed Bachelors of Social Work (LBSW)
✓CA: BSW cannot be used as the core SW.
✓DE: Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker (LBSW)
✓FL: BSW
✓MO: Baccalaureate Social Worker (BSW)
✓TX: Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker (LBSW)
Qualifications
✓Ability to travel per job requirements.
✓Thorough knowledge of community resources or the desire/ability to obtain this knowledge.
✓Knowledge of key psychosocial issues prevalent with terminally ill patients and their family/caregivers, including the knowledge of effective psychosocial interventions to address those issues.
✓Capacity to relate and work well with others as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
✓Excellent listening and communication skills.
✓Ability to be an effective patient and family advocate- both within the patient/family unit, within the core IDG, and within community agencies and the like.
✓Provide emotional and psychological support to patients and families.
✓Offer counseling and crisis intervention services.
✓Provide bereavement support and grief counseling.
✓Educate patients and families on the emotional and psychological response to the illness progression
✓At least one year social work experience in a health care setting.
✓Experience in providing counseling and support to patients and families.
✓Empathy and compassion in dealing with seriously ill patients and their families.
✓Minimum State Requirements for the following states:
✓CT: Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
✓DC: Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW)
Experience as a social worker with the terminally ill and their families, preferred
Benefits
Competitive compensationHealth, dental, vision, life and disability insurancePre-tax healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accountsLife insurance
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