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Social Worker LCSW - Palliative Care
Denver Health
This position requires a skilled and experienced social worker to actively participate in the interdisciplinary Palliative Care team consultation service in both clinic and inpatient environments. This includes completing psychosocial assessments, providing direct psychosocial/counseling/care management interventions and consulting with providers re: psychosocial issues and resource needs. Additionally, this role will attend and participate in formal and informal family meetings, participate in institution-wide palliative care education efforts, participate in the development and review of appropriate protocols and processes that support appropriate referrals to the Palliative Care team, participate in the development and implementation of appropriate measures of patient care quality and satisfaction and assist in ongoing research and quality improvement projects in the Palliative Care Department. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 1. Knowledge of crisis intervention and brief and long term therapy processes. 2. Knowledge of patient populations’ cultural, religious, ethnic, and social systems in interactions, care planning and education. 3. Knowledge of medical terms, abbreviations, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis and demonstrates this knowledge verbally and in writing. 4. Skill in navigating and documenting within a medical record system. 5. Skill in providing care appropriate to the age of the patients served within the unit. 6. Skill in establishing a treatment alliance and engaging the client system in goal setting and prioritizing. 7. Ability to manage the professional relationship including termination. 8. Ability to respond to trauma or psychiatric emergency.
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Education: Master’s Degree in Social Work from a CSWE accredited college or university required. Experience: Two years of full time post Master’s Degree social work practice under the supervision of a licensed or equivalently qualified social worker or other DORA approved professional required. Experience in hospice and/or palliative care is preferred. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred. Certificates, Licenses and Registration: 1. Licensed Clinical Social Worker/State of Colorado or Licensed Social Worker/State of Colorado required. 2. Current basic Life Support for Health Care Provider Certification/CPR from the American Heart Association or Red Cross required. |
Additional Salary Information: Robust benefits package
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