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Licensed Social Worker, Hospice Home Care, Bronx

The Bronx, New York Social Services
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Job ID R010869
Overview

Licensed Social Workers provide supportive holistic social work services to patients and families during life’s most difficult moments ensuring a seamless integration with the healthcare team’s efforts. You’ll work in tandem with healthcare professionals, upholding quality standards and policies to provide exceptional support. You’ll tailor services to meet the unique needs of each patient and family, fostering an environment of care and understanding. This is an experienced, master’s level, licensed social services role that provides direct care as part of a team. Join us in building on our 130-year history and becoming a part of the Future of Care that is strengthening communities with high quality, integrated social work programs.


Compensation:

$63,800.00 - $79,800.00 Annual

What We Provide

  • Referral bonus opportunities    

  • Generous paid time off (PTO), starting at 30 days of paid time off and 9 company holidays  

  • Health insurance plan for you and your loved ones, Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability   

  • Employer-matched 401k retirement saving program and opportunity for both pre- and post-tax contributions

  • Personal and financial wellness programs   

  • Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for healthcare and dependent care and commuter transit program   

  • Generous tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees  

  • Opportunities for professional growth, career advancement and CEU credits

What You Will Do

  • Assess clients and family psychosocial status, social work needs, and living conditions utilizing professional knowledge, skills of observations and interviewing skills.

  • Establish the social work component of the patient/family plan of care based on goals mutually acceptable to the client, family, and significant others. Make referrals to other community services, as necessary.

  • Provide psychosocial work services to patient and family, including short-term individual counseling, community resource planning, and crisis intervention. Responds to emergent psychosocial patient and family needs, as requested.

  • Travel to patients’ homes and/or other facilities with varying environments to deliver patient care

  • Initiate and maintain verbal and written communication according to VNS Home Care policy, including the timely preparation of clinical and progress notes, to ensure optimal quality care.


Qualifications

Licenses and Certifications:

  • Current registration to practice as a Licensed Social Worker and Licensed Master’s Social Worker (LMSW) in New York State, required

  • Valid driver's license required


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, required


Work Experience:

  • Minimum one year of social work experience in a health care setting, required

  • Bilingual skills may be required, as determined by operational needs


Pay Range per Visit:
If you are applying to the per diem per visit version of this job, the hiring range is as follows: $63.75 per visit.


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 125 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.

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