Social Worker (MSW) - Full-time
Avera
- Beaver Creek, MN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work with an innovative team within a caring Christian culture.
- Collaborate with a vast team of healthcare professionals.
- Be a vital resource to patients, and families.
- Work with community resources/programs, as well as Medicaid/Medicare in the hospital system.
- Work with a variety of patient concerns.
- Responsible to plan, organize and implement social work services for cancer patients and families assuring that the medically related clinical, emotional, social and spiritual needs are met/maintained on an individual basis.
- Provides counseling to individuals as well as group supportive counseling.
- Facilitates quality care/education for patients and their families; coordination, implementation and evaluation of clinical activities, patient, professional and public education, performance improvement and assists with administrative functions.
- Conducts psychosocial assessment and care planning for the continuum of cancer care in the outpatient setting. Maintains contact with referring agencies and related people and with community resources used for referral.
- Master's degree from an accredited Social Work program required.
- Oncology related experience and/or training preferred.
- Licensed as a Social Worker in the State of South Dakota required.
- National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Care preferred
- Monday – Friday; 80 hours every 2 weeks
- 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
- $28.75 - $43.50 per hour