PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIAL WORKER, Heart

PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIAL WORKER, Heart-(3276887)

Description

HEART PALLIATIVE SOCIAL WORKER / FULL TIME / 40 HOURS / BWH CARE CONTINUUM / BOSTON MA

• SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE!
• LICSW or LCSW
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a nationally ranked academic medical center
• Grow and learn through regular internal continuing education programming, financial support for continuing education courses and conferences, and mentorship.
• Ask about our SIGN ON BONUS for eligible candidates! (Non-MGB employees)
• Excellent benefits : generous Paid Time Off; 403B match; cash balance pension; tuition reimbursement of $5,250 / year, including continuing education; medical and dental; short-term disability; MBTA pass subsidy; and much more.
• Convenient public transit / T-accessible Longwood Medical area location at the Main Campus at 75 Francis Street, Boston.

ABOUT THIS PALLIATIVE SOCIAL WORKER JOB :

The Palliative Care Social Worker (LCSW or LICSW) with experience working in a large, fast-paced academic medical center with inter-professional team focusing on patients with Advanced Heart Disease and their families. Social Worker will utilize their palliative care clinical skillset, effective communication, familiarity working with patients with serious illnesses, and competence working with interprofessional colleagues, as well as others in the Cardiology specialties (e.g., transplant).

The "HeartPal" team works very closely with one another, along with the primary medical teams, integrating knowledge and skillsets and dedicating time to provide comprehensive assessments, treatment plans and next-step recommendations, as well as assisting in developing disposition plans in collaboration with the primary and specialty teams. The HeartPal social worker must have familiarity with conducting and / or participating in family meetings, serious illness communication, as well as comfort providing “anticipatory guidance” to patients and their loved ones.

The HeartPal social worker will dedicate time in the out-patient setting working with patients referred to the HeartPal program by cardiology providers. The HeartPal social worker will have dedicated time to work on relevant mezzo and macro projects will be a part of the BWH Palliative Care, HeartPal Program, which provides palliative care to patients with heart disease across the care continuum, including in-patient, out-patient and dialysis settings. The BWH HeartPal team is inter-professional and includes an experienced palliative care social worker, palliative care nurse practitioner and palliative care physician. The HeartPal Program is a collaboration between the Departments of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, and Care Continuum Management at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

The Palliative Care Social Worker is a key member of the inter-professional team, providing and overseeing the provision of palliative care, and, in particular, psychosocial interventions for selected patients and families. Some of the core tasks include : identifying psychosocial and emotional factors that impact the health status of patients / families; formal and informal teaching and modeling the role of palliative care in the course of serious illness; and practicing effective communication strategies to elicit and document patients’ values and goals to inform health-related decisions. The Palliative Care Social Worker provides clinical services to patients / families that address environmental, age-specific and cultural issues to maximize emotional, social and physical well-being and effective use of health care and community resources. The Palliative Care Social Worker collaborates with the medical team and provides social work consultation within the hospital and community during care transitions to increase continuity when patients are most vulnerable.

The Palliative Care Social Worker is an effective inter-professional team member and is attuned to team dynamics. Core tasks to promote teamwork include : participation in, contribution to, and implementation of processes to support team cohesion and sustainability. The BWH HeartPal Social Worker will participate regularly in team meetings and contribute to program planning, implementation, and evaluation, as well as presentations in both clinical and other, broader settings. The Palliative Care Social Worker will ensure documentation of patients’ values and goals and will facilitate referrals to appropriate clinical care teams within the hospital during admissions, as well as across care transitions.

Twenty percent (20%) of this full-time position will be dedicated to program development, measurement and education. Working closely with the HeartPal team, the Palliative Care Social Worker will represent, advocate, and teach other clinicians the psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of this patient population.

The Clinical Social Worker reports directly to the Manager, Palliative CareSocial Work, Dept. of Care Continuum Management. The Clinical Social Worker will be provided mentoring by the Heart Pal inter-professional team and will have opportunities to collaborate with other palliative care social workers.

Job Responsibilities :

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Practice :

Quality, Utilization Management : High Risk Psychosocial :

Leadership, Teaching and Education :

Organizational / Administrative Skills :

Professional Conduct :

Adheres to and fosters compliance with NASW Code of Ethics, and Department and Hospital clinical, quality, compliance and safety standards, policies and procedures.

Supervisory :

Expected to mentor, precept, teach social workers and social work residents

Fiscal :

Meets Department productivity and standards. Ambulatory staff, ED and ED on-call are responsible for billable hours.

Hospital-Wide Responsibility :

Works within legal, regulatory, accreditation and ethical practice standards relevant to the position and as established by BWH / Partners; follows safe practices required for the position; complies with appropriate BWH and Partners policies and procedures; fulfills any training required by BWH and / or Partners, as appropriate; brings potential matters of non-compliance to the attention of the supervisor or other appropriate hospital staff.

Qualifications