Upvote
Downvote
Palliative Care Clinical Social Worker
Share Job
- Suggest Revision
Full-time
- Reporting to the Palliative Care Manager of Social Services and the Section Director of Palliative Care, the Palliative Care Clinical Social Worker serves on an interdisciplinary consulting team, which aids in the development of palliative care plans for patients and families facing serious illness and end of life in all hospital departments, including emergency services, heart and vascular, general medicine, oncology, and high-risk obstetrics.
- Coordinates with physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, discharge planning case managers and other disciplines on primary care teams to expedite appropriate, safe, and timely post-acute care plans.
- Develops in-vivo, didactic, and workshop-based educational opportunities to promote the adoption of primary palliative practice by clinicians across the hospital network and in the broader health care field.
- Works with primary teams to identify opportunities for appropriate post-acute care that decreases unnecessary readmissions.
- Provides consultation, assessment, coordination, and referral in cases of child or elder abuse, neglect, domestic violence and/or sexual abuse.
Active Job
Updated 1 month agoSimilar Job
Relevance
Active