Social Worker | MSW | Hospice

Social Worker, Master’s – Hospice Home Visits, full-time

Faith Hospice is seeking a full-time Master's prepared Social Worker to join our team to provide support to patients, families, and caregivers by offering emotional support, information, education, long-range care planning, short-term counseling, and assistance with identifying and accessing resources.

As a Hospice Social Worker, you will:

· Work a Monday – Friday schedule, 8a – 5pm with participation in the after hours on-call rotation with the Hospice MSW team

· The primary focus is on:

o Performing psychosocial care assessments

o Developing a care plan with the interdisciplinary group along with patient/family/caregiver for assigned hospice patients

o Provide psychosocial and emotional support to patients, families, and caregivers including making social work visits, providing counseling for issues related to death, dying, and grief, crisis intervention, etc

o Educate to explain hospice Medicare benefit and complete sign on paperwork as necessary to facilitate admission to hospice

The Hospice Social Worker role requires:

· Master’s degree in social work from an accredited school

· Full licensure from the State of Michigan as an MSW (limited license is accepted with the requirement of continuing to work towards full licensure while employed by Faith Hospice)

· Due to the autonomous nature of this position, it also requires a minimum of one year of social work experience in a health care/medical setting with strong knowledge of community-based resources.

· Prior hospice social work experience is highly valued.

· Candidates must also have proof of Michigan driver's license and vehicle liability insurance as well as a reliable means of transportation to make home visits.

If this rare opportunity calls to you, please apply on-line at and click on the Careers tab. We look forward to hearing from you!

ABOUT FAITH HOSPICE:
Since 1995, Faith Hospice has been providing comfort care to those with a life-limiting illness or condition as well as support to their families. Our doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, hospice aides, and volunteers serve patients in a variety of settings. Faith Hospice provides care "wherever our patient lays his/her head down to sleep at night" including private homes, assisted living or skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals. We also provide end-of-life care at Trillium Woods, our beautiful hospice residence in Byron Center. Working in hospice requires a special gift of caring for those patients and families at such a critical time. We understand that passion and seek to add more health care professionals to our team who share this passion as well!