PRN/Part Time - Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Home Health - Brady, TX

**Job Title: PRN/Part Time - Medical Social Worker - Home Health** **Location: Menard, TX, 76825** **Agency: Hill country Preferred Senior Care** **Responsibilities**: - Assists the patients, significant others, physician, and health care team staff to understand significant personal, emotional, environmental, and social factors and difficulties related to the patient's health problems; which interfere with maximizing the benefit of medical services and the plan of care. - Contributes as a health care team member to the development of comprehensive, integrated treatment plans for patients. - Instructs health care team members on community resources available to assist patients. - Observes records and reports changes in the client's emotional and social factors that affect the client's illness and his/her need for care and his/her response to treatment. - Maintains and submits written clinical records as deemed by the Agency, including the initial evaluation, the care plan and daily notes. - Evaluates the clients and family's response to, and effectiveness of, the medical social work intervention. - Participates in Agency activities and committees when appropriate to include staff development activities and in-service education. - Supervises the social work assistant once monthly. - Assumes responsibility for self-development by continually striving to improve his/her Medical Social Worker‘ practice though formal education, attendance at workshops and conferences, active participation in professional and related organizational meetings, and individual research and reading. **Skills required :** - Assesses the client’s potential to cope with his/her social and health problems. - Acts as consultant to the members of the health team, assists them in understanding the social, emotional and environmental factors related to the client's health problems. - Helps clients to utilize the resources of their families and the community. - Provides rehabilitative and supportive casework. - Assists clients and their families in coping with personal and environmental difficulties which might predispose them toward illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care. **Job conditions :** - The ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing is required. - The ability to access clients' homes which may not be routinely wheelchair accessible is required. - Hearing, eyesight and physical dexterity must be sufficient to perform a physical assessment of the client's condition and to perform client care. - Physical activities will include, walking, sitting, stooping, standing and minimal to maximum lifting of clients and the turning of clients. **Qualifications Required :** - A person who has a master's degree (MSW) from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, or the individual must be licensed in the State of Texas. - One year of experience, working as a social worker. - Current driver's license with current automobile insurance.