Medical Social Worker

Butte Home Health & Hospice is seeking a compassionate and professional Medical Social Worker to join our Home Health and Hospice team. This role provides meaningful support to patients and families during some of the most important and vulnerable times in their lives.

Working in home health and hospice is incredibly rewarding. Our team has the privilege of meeting patients where they are, helping them remain safe and supported in their homes, and guiding families through care needs, resources, and emotional challenges. Butte Home Health & Hospice is a wonderful place to work, with a strong team-centered culture and a long-standing commitment to serving our community.

Job Description

The Medical Social Worker provides social work services to home health and hospice patients and their families in accordance with the patient’s plan of care. This position helps identify psychosocial, emotional, financial, environmental, and community resource needs that may impact the patient’s health, safety, independence, or end-of-life experience.

Responsibilities include:

• Completing psychosocial assessments for home health and hospice patients.
• Evaluating patient and family coping, support systems, safety concerns, and resource needs.
• Assisting patients and families with advance care planning, community resources, long-term planning, and care coordination.
• Providing short-term counseling, emotional support, and crisis intervention as appropriate.
• Supporting hospice patients and families with end-of-life planning, grief support, caregiver stress, and adjustment to illness.
• Collaborating with nurses, therapists, aides, physicians, chaplains, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Participating in hospice interdisciplinary group meetings and care planning as needed.
• Educating patients and families regarding available community programs, placement options, financial assistance, transportation, caregiver support, and other resources.
• Documenting visits, assessments, interventions, and care coordination accurately and timely in the electronic medical record.
• Communicating changes in patient condition, safety concerns, or psychosocial needs to the clinical team.
• Supporting patient dignity, autonomy, and choice while following agency policies and regulatory requirements.