Licensed Social Worker, Home Care
Company: VNS Health
Location: Bronx
Posted on: March 14, 2025
Job Description:
Overview Provides social work services to patients and families
in collaboration with the health care team consistent with VNS Home
Care policies. Works under general supervision.Responsibilities
- Assesses clients and/or family psychosocial status, social work
needs and living conditions utilizing professional knowledge,
skills of observations and interviewing skills.
- Establishes the social work component of the patient/family
plan of care based on goals mutually acceptable to the client,
family and significant others. Makes referrals to other community
services, as necessary.
- Travels to patients' homes and/or other facilities with varying
environments (e.g., elevated buildings, walk-ups, care facilities,
single/multiple family homes, presence of pets, etc.) using
approved transportation options to deliver direct service to the
client.
- Provides psychosocial work services to patient and/or family,
including short-term individual counseling, community resource
planning, and crisis intervention. Responds to emergent
psychosocial patient and family needs, as requested.
- Provides advocacy to patient and/or family, e.g., assistance in
obtaining entitlements and community services.
- Provides social work services in accordance with VNS Health
policies, practices, procedures and Standards of Social Work
Practice, which may require standing, stooping, sitting, crouching,
bending and stretching to deliver patient care, as needed.
- Initiates and maintains verbal and written communication
according to VNS Home Care policy, including the preparation of
clinical and progress notes, to ensure optimal quality care.
- Manages social work planning for a caseload of patients
prescribed by the physician and other team members from assessment
to discharge. Maintains productivity sufficient to meet program
goals.
- Assists the physician and other team members in understanding
the significant social and emotional factors related to the
patient's health problems.
- Participates in the development of treatment plans and revises
the goals as needed. Coordinates approaches to patient and/or
family care with other team members.
- Consults with and educates the patient and family regarding the
treatment plan, self-care techniques and prevention
strategies.
- Utilizes appropriate community resources and serves as a
liaison between VNS Health and other community agencies.
- Participates in discharge planning.
- Assumes responsibility for continued professional growth, such
as in-service programs.
- Transports and utilizes VNS Health designated/supplied carrying
case weighing up to 30 lbs. (as needed) to and from patient
homes/care facilities, VNS Health offices and other locations.
- Acts as a resource to VNS Health staff.Required For All Jobs
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as
assigned. Qualifications Education
- Master's Degree in Social Work after successfully completing a
prescribed course of study at a graduate school of Social Work
accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and the
Education Dept. and who is certified or licensed by the Education
Dept to practice Social Work in New York State requiredWork
Experience
- Minimum of one year of social work experience in a health care
setting required
- Bilingual Spanish skills required Licenses and Certifications
- Current registration to practice as a Licensed Social Worker in
New York State required or
- Current registration to practice as a Licensed Clinical Social
Worker (LCSW) in New York State required
- Valid driver's license or NYS Non-Driver photo ID card required
as determined by operational/regional needs Compensation $63,800.00
- $79,800.00 Annual About Us VNS Health is one of the nation's
largest nonprofit home and community-based health care
organizations. Innovating in health care for more than 130 years,
our commitment to health and well-being is what drives us-we help
people live, age and heal where they feel most comfortable, in
their own homes, connected to their family and community. On any
given day, more than 10,000 VNS Health team members deliver
compassionate care, unparalleled expertise and 24/7 solutions and
resources to the more than 43,000 "neighbors" who look to us for
care. Powered and informed by data analytics that are unmatched in
the home and community-health industry, VNS Health offers a full
range of health care services, solutions and health plans designed
to simplify the health care experience and meet the diverse and
complex needs of the communities and people we serve in New York
and beyond.
Keywords: VNS Health, Mount Vernon , Licensed Social Worker, Home Care, Healthcare , Bronx, New York
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