Social Worker - Home Health

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Are you a Social Worker looking for a new opportunity? Adoration Home Health is seeking a passionate, dedicated Home Health Social Worker to join our team in  Kingsport, TN . Our Home Health Social Workers provide expert, patient-centered care. If you’re ready to work in a supportive, fulfilling environment where your skills and empathy truly shine, apply today!   

Office Location: Kingsport, TN
Coverage area: Sullivan County/Grainger County/Claiborne County/Hancock County

Schedule: As needed

How YOU will benefit:

• Provide 1:1 visits to make a lasting impact on patients and families   
• Greater work/life balance with flexible scheduling options   
• Less time on your feet compared to other settings   
• Ability to work independently while also having team support    
• Job stability and regular advancement opportunities with a growing company

Benefits and Perks for You!

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance   
• Health Savings & Flexible Spending Accounts (up to $5,000 for childcare)   
• Tuition discounts & reimbursement   
• 401(k) with company match   
• Mileage Reimbursement 
• Generous PTO   
• Access to wellness and discount programs such as Noom, SkinIO (Virtual Skin Cancer Screening), childcare, gym memberships, pet insurance, travel and entertainment discounts and more!   

*Benefits may vary by employment status  

Responsibilities

As a Home Health Social Worker, You will:

• Guide and counsel individuals and families in crisis, ranging from the unemployed to children who need foster homes to elderly people who have no one to care for them
• Assist clients in obtaining government funds, education, or treatment
• Secure information, such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to the client's situation, and evaluate these and the client's capacities. Ask clients to explain problems, such as personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, and physical and mental impairments, to determine the nature and degree of the problem
• Help patients and families through individual or group conferences regarding plans for meeting needs and aids clients in mobilizing inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning
• Help the client to modify attitudes and patterns of behavior by increasing understanding of self, personal problems, and the client's part in creating them
• Develop a service plan designed to restore the patient to optimum social and health adjustment within the patient's capacity

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work 
• Five plus years of clinical social work experience 
• Valid and current Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Medical Social Worker license
• Ability to make psycho-social assessments and develop and implement viable care plans