Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Home Health & Hospice - Santa Clara County - San Jose California

Company: American Home Health Care
Location: San Jose, California
Posted On: 02/02/2025

Description:We are looking for a Medical Social Worker to provide care at our Patient's homes in primarily Santa Clara Counties. As a Medical Social Worker, you will assist patients and families in coping with problems resulting from severe or long-term illness. You will assess, diagnose, and treat patient's mental and social conditions, counsel individuals and/ or families, and update case records.Requirements:

• Assesses psychosocial status of patient and social/ emotional factors related to the patient's illness, need for care, and response to treatment.
• Assisting patients and families with goal setting, counseling, and planning and providing interventions.
• Assisting patients and families with appropriate community recourses, their eligibility criteria, and regulations.
• Participates in the development and periodic renewal of the patient's plan of care.
• Observes, and reports to the physician the response to the patient's treatment.
• Maintains verbal and written communication with other personnel involved with the care of the patient.
• Maintains appropriate and timely patient care records in the EMR, including observation, treatments, patient response to treatment, and change in patient's condition
• Attends and participates in appropriate patients care conferences, staff meetings, and agency committee meetings.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients and families, and staff members.
  
  
  
  
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