💙 Hospice Social Worker FTE (MSW or LCSW)

📍 Serving Panama City, Bay County & Surrounding Areas

Full-Time | Exempt

🌿 Help Build the Future of Hospice Care in Northwest Florida

Big Bend Hospice is growing! We’re expanding our hospice services throughout Jackson, Holmes, Washington, Calhoun, Gulf, and Bay Counties, and we’re looking for compassionate, mission-driven Social Workers to help us bring exceptional end-of-life care and support to patients and families throughout Northwest Florida.

This is a unique opportunity to help build something meaningful while making a lasting impact in the communities you serve. As a Hospice Social Worker, you’ll walk alongside patients and families during some of life’s most difficult moments—providing advocacy, counseling, resources, guidance, and compassionate support when they need it most.

If you’re passionate about patient advocacy, supporting families, and ensuring every person experiences dignity, comfort, and compassionate care, we’d love to meet you.

✨ Why This Opportunity Is Different

As one of our Social Workers supporting this growing service area, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• 🌱 Help establish and grow hospice services throughout Northwest Florida.

• 🤝 Build meaningful relationships with patients, families, healthcare providers, and community partners.

• 💙 Enjoy autonomy in your practice while being supported by a compassionate and experienced interdisciplinary team.

• 🏡 Serve patients wherever they call home.

• 🌎 Make a meaningful difference in communities throughout the region.

• 💫 Provide comfort, guidance, and hope to patients and families during some of life’s most important moments.

🩵 What You’ll Do

As a Hospice Social Worker, you’ll be an essential member of the interdisciplinary care team, helping patients and families navigate the emotional, social, practical, and financial challenges that can accompany serious illness and end-of-life care.

You will:

• 📝 Complete comprehensive psychosocial assessments for hospice patients and families.

• 💙 Provide emotional support, counseling, and crisis intervention to patients and caregivers.

• 🧭 Assist patients and families with advance care planning, community resources, financial assistance, and long-term care planning.

• 🗣️ Advocate for patient wishes and help patients and families navigate difficult decisions with compassion and respect.

• 🤝 Collaborate with physicians, nurses, chaplains, hospice aides, volunteers, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team.

• 👥 Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and contribute to the development of individualized plans of care.

• 📚 Educate patients and caregivers about available resources, programs, and benefits.

• 🏡 Provide care wherever patients call home, including private residences, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospitals, and inpatient hospice settings.

• 📞 Participate in the on-call rotation as assigned.

⏰ Schedule

📅 Monday – Friday
🕗 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

📞 Participation in an on-call rotation is required.
🎄 Holiday rotation is also required.