Job Title: Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Palliative Care
Location: Danville, Pennsylvania
Job Category: Wellbeing Services, Social Work
Schedule: Days
Work Type: Full time
Department: Radiation Oncology Division
Date Posted: 12/04/2024
Job ID: R-70121

Job Summary

Will serve as a member of a multidisciplinary Palliative Care team with liaison responsibilities with hospitals and other community organizations. This position includes facilitating family meetings, working with anticipatory grief and difficult family dynamics, understanding placement options, and appropriate social, financial, and legal services.

Job Duties

• Provides outpatient psycho-social evaluation for advanced illness patient population.
• Develops plan of intervention, caseload can consist of inpatients and outpatient as well as family members. 
• Documents in the electronic health record
• Communicates effectively on an interdisciplinary level throughout the continuum of care
• Participates actively as a team member in meetings and demonstrates a professional working relationship with all levels of staff
• Regularly acts as a liaison between medical and nursing staff, patients and outside agencies.
• Attends to the needs of the advanced complex illness population
• Participates in in-service and staff development activities by attendance, serving on planning committees and or offering topics for pertinent educational programs
• Accepts personal responsibility for professional growth and development and own work responsibilities
• Pursues knowledge of palliative care and its benefit to patients and families; attends conferences and seeks out learning; pursues advanced certification in palliative care social work.
• Communicates appropriately using good interpersonal skills
• Serves, manages and supports internal and external customers
• Participates in performance improvement activities
• Accurately code services using current billing codes as applicable with system/department procedures

Work is typically performed in a clinical and office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position

Position Details

Education

Master's Degree-Social Work (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 3 years-Related work experience (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Default Issuing Body

Our Purpose & Values

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.