$79,400 - $89,000 yearly
The Resume Review - Recruiting Department
Honolulu, HI, USA
Job Summary:
Serves as an integral member of a self-directed interdisciplinary palliative care team. Provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments, coordination and implantation of age appropriate social work services to meet the complex needs of patients/families/significant others in the hospital and ambulatory settings. The primary focus of the Palliative Care social worker is to assist patients and families/caregivers in coping with intense and difficult social, emotional, and practical arrangements related to patients serious illness. The social worker encourages respect for individuality, independence, and patient choice, while collaborating on policies and systems that respect the cultural, religious, and ethnic difference among patients and families. Social work contributes to the teams understanding of team development and working together, as well as understanding the patients beliefs, behaviors, and barriers regarding the members illness.
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