GoldLeaf HomeHealth is seeking a Medical Social Worker to join our team on a PRN basis. The ideal candidate will have experience working with geriatric and adult populations.

Coverage needed throughout the greater Denver metro areas: Denver, Thornton, Westminster, Lakewood, Englewood, Littleton, Centennial, Greenwood Village, Aurora, Parker.

GoldLeaf Home Health is proudly based in Denver, Colorado. We take special pride in serving our clients and patients in personal need of our home healthcare services as well as offering full-time employment to hard-working, highly passionate, highly skilled caregivers and medical professionals who represent the growing symbol of loving care that is GoldLeaf. We are growing rapidly due to our new brand of excellence in home heathcare and senior care services. As we grow, we are excited and committed to introducing more families to our high level of care.

ABILITIES, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, professional journals, and legal documents.
• Ability to read and interpret physicians’ orders and notes from other caregivers as well as respond to them verbally and in writing.
• Ability to effectively present information to clients and employees and community.
• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to improvise in a home setting.
• Ability to send/receive emails and use the internet for research and informational purposes.
• Ability to use computer/tablet software for communication and documentation purposes.
• Ability to use independent judgment to manage and impart confidential information.
• Skill to attend to multiple tasks at once which are time sensitive.
• Knowledge of principles and scope of social work.
• Thorough knowledge of social work theory and practice, home health care practice, communication skills, case management, and psychosocial assessment skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, the public, and supervisors.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Assisting the physician and other team members in understanding the significant social and emotional factors relating to the health problems of the client.
• Assessing the social and emotional factors related to the client’s illness, need for care, response to treatment, and adjustment to care.
• Assessing the relationship of the client’s medical and nursing needs to the home situation, financial resources, and availability of community resources.
• Providing counseling services to the client. Counseling services may also be provided to family members or caregivers on a short-term basis, when indicated, to address situations/circumstances that are impediments to the effective treatment of the client.
• Identifying and obtaining appropriate community resources to assist in resolving client problems.
• Participating in Plan of Care development, care conferences, discharge planning, in-service programs, and acting as a resource to other members of the health care team.
• A physician’s order for social services shall be obtained.
• Observes, records and reports to physician and/or supervisor, client’s reaction to treatment, client’s progress and any changes in client’s condition.
• Assists client and family with community resources needed to adjust to physical, mental and social limitations.
• Coordinates other service team members, both in formal and informal care conferences, to assure sufficient flow of information to support care of client.
• Informs client, family and physician verbally and in writing as needed regarding plan of care, progress, or changes and pending discharge.
• Provides accurate and timely documentation of care in accordance with agency policy and pay source requirements.
• Meets regulatory agency and/or pay source requirements regarding patient care.
• Effectively manages a caseload as established by agency.
• Participates, as requested, in orientation of new staff, in-service education, continuing education, utilization review and QI/QA programs.
• Uses agency approved software to enter evaluations and visit documentation.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Master’s Degree (M.S.) in Social Work from an accredited school of Social Work

and one year of experience in a health care setting. Home health experience preferred

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Active Colorado licensed Social Worker either LCSW or LSW
• Master’s degree in Social Work
• Current CPR certification
• Current TB screening upon hire and annually thereafter
• Possession of a valid Colorado Driver's License with reliable transportation and applicable car insurance.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to regularly sit, stand, stoop, bend, kneel, walk, balance, crouch, crawl, push, pull, reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.
• Ability to occasionally climb and use sense of smell.
• Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 100 pounds.
• Ability to use close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception.
• Ability to adjust focus.

TRAVEL:

The employee is required to travel frequently to complete home health visits. Most visits will be within Denver, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Douglas, and/or Adams Counties. Occasional visits may be requested outside that zone.