The Care Team The care you deserve and the support you need.

Come join our growing team! The Care Team Home Health is looking for a Part-Time Medical Social Worker in Grand Rapids, MI, and surrounding areas. We specialize in providing Home Care in the home and facilities. If you are looking for a new and exciting opportunity, we encourage you to apply today. A member of the recruiting team will be in contact with you to discuss this opportunity in more detail. At the Care Team we offer:

• Innovation and industry-leading systems and technology
• Engaging Company Culture
• Competitive Compensation
• 401k with company match
• Growth from within through training, supportive leadership, and collaboration with the best of the best in your field
• Independence, Autonomy, and Flexibility!

To learn more, visit www.tctcares.com!

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Delivers varied social work services to Home Health patients and their families by physician orders and under the direction and supervision of the Clinical Manager.

Additionally, the MSW will:

• Assists in the admission process of the patient to the Agency by performing an initial evaluation, assessing the patients psychosocial status, and evaluating the patient, family, and home to identify socioeconomic and emotional factors that will affect the plan of treatment.
• Assisting development and implementation of the interdisciplinary patent care plan as it pertains to medical social work.
• Observes, records, and reports changes in the patients emotional and social factors that affect the patients illness and his/her need for care and his/her response to treatment.
• Consults with the attending physician concerning the alteration of the planned treatment.
• Maintains and submits written clinical records as deemed by the Agency, including the initial evaluation, the care plan, and daily notes.
• Evaluates the patient's and family's response to, and effectiveness of, the medical social work intervention.
• Confirms, every week, the scheduling of visits with the Director of Nursing to facilitate coordination of other staff visits.
• Participates in Agency activities and committees when appropriate to include staff development activities and in-service education.
• Supervises the social work assistant once monthly.
• Participates in discharge planning.
• Assumes responsibility for self-development by continually striving to improve his/her Medical Social Worker practice through formal education, attendance at workshops and conferences, active participation in professional and related organizational meetings, and individual research and reading.
• Assesses the patients potential to cope with his/her social health problems.
• Acts as a consultant to the members of the health team, assist them in understanding the social, emotional, and environmental factors related to the patients health problems.
• Helps patients to utilize the resources of their families and the community.
• Provides rehabilitative and supportive casework.
• Assists patients and their families in coping with personal and environmental difficulties which might predispose them toward illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care.
• The clinical record shall contain notes for each service provided. A clinical note will be completed for each visit made to a patients home (including a private residence, assisted living facility, group homes, or skilled nursing facility) within 48 hours of the visit.