Social Worker- Taylor Incenter - 24 Hours/Week

$5,000 SIGN ON BONUS

No weekends or on-call required

Address: 24565 Haig Rd. Taylor, MI 48180

WHO WE ARE:

Henry Ford Health dialysis facilities (Greenfield Health Systems) offer a compassionate, multi-specialty team, modern technology, clinical expertise, and the latest medical knowledge to provide renal patients the highest quality care available. We have been part of the community since 1983 and are close to celebrating almost 40 years of excellence dedicated to dialysis!

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION:

Taylor Dialysis is a freestanding outpatient dialysis facility. The facility oversees peritoneal and home dialysis patients. Census is120 incenter patients.

Staffed with full-time Nephrologists. In addition, the unit has multiple support staff members including the front desk team and tech leader staff (machine maintenance) that may assist with operational duties within the clinic.

Our team provides pt education as well as referrals to transplant services for sites the pt requests to be referred to.

The unit is typically open Monday through Saturday 5am to 630pm for pt care hours with some flexibility based on the clinic's needs.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Masters-prepared Social Workers to work with our renal patients and families to assist with the adjustment to what is likely a life-changing event. Provide emotional and social adjustment counseling, assistance with removing barriers to treatment, education on kidney disease and treatment goals, and bridging barriers to referral services and community resources.
• Conducts initial psychosocial interviews with patients and families in order to assess baseline level of functioning, comprehension of illness and its ramifications, and impact of individual/family history upon current and future psychosocial functioning.
• Provides ego-supportive counseling to patients and their families in order to maximize ongoing psychosocial functioning.
• Provides crisis intervention to patients and families as needed.
• Functions as a patient advocate and as a liaison between the patient and multiple care delivery systems.
• Participates in comprehensive inter-disciplinary team patient care meetings with appropriate documentation on IDT assessment and plan of care.
• Records psychosocial assessments, update assessments and progress notes in accordance with established recording guidelines.