Social Worker - Home Health

Job Description

Overview

Office Location: Fort Payne, AL

Coverage area: Fort Payne, AL

Schedule: PRN

How YOU will benefit:

Provide 1:1 visits to make a lasting impact on patients and families

Greater work/life balance with flexible scheduling options

Less time on your feet compared to other settings

Ability to work independently while also having team support

Job stability and regular advancement opportunities with a growing company

Benefits and Perks for You!

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Health Savings & Flexible Spending Accounts (up to $5,000 for childcare)

Tuition discounts & reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Mileage Reimbursement

Generous PTO

Access to wellness and discount programs such as Noom, SkinIO (Virtual Skin Cancer Screening), childcare, gym memberships, pet insurance, travel and entertainment discounts and more!

*Benefits may vary by employment status

Responsibilities

As a Home Health Social Worker, You will:

Guide and counsel individuals and families in crisis, ranging from the unemployed to children who need foster homes to elderly people who have no one to care for them

Assist clients in obtaining government funds, education, or treatment

Secure information, such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to the client's situation, and evaluate these and the client's capacities. Ask clients to explain problems, such as personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, and physical and mental impairments, to determine the nature and degree of the problem

Help patients and families through individual or group conferences regarding plans for meeting needs and aids clients in mobilizing inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning

Help the client to modify attitudes and patterns of behavior by increasing understanding of self, personal problems, and the client's part in creating them

Develop a service plan designed to restore the patient to optimum social and health adjustment within the patient's capacity

Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Social Work

Five plus years of clinical social work experience

Valid and current Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Medical Social Worker license

Ability to make psycho-social assessments and develop and implement viable care plans