Licensed Social Worker

Social Worker

Colorado PACE has an immediate opening for a Social Worker. LSW or LCSW Required.

Location: Aurora, CO

Status: Full-time

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8-4:30

Annual Pay Range: $65,312 - $79,726

Supplemental Pay: Based on position, schedule and/or availability: Paid Mileage, Shift Diffs, Stipends

Mileage and Expense Reimbursement: Sixty-two and a half cents per mile – one of the highest in the industry!

Culture, Benefits and Perks:

• We value engagement, community, and outreach initiatives and know it matters for our team members and our patients. We provide welcoming and supportive care to our patients and a work environment where all team members feel respected and valued.
• We support a culture of work-life balance and provide team members with two, free, confidential and robust benefit programs designed to provide solutions to the logistical and financial problems that arise in life.
• Employer pays over 90% of employee medical premium in some plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with significant Employer Funding: Single $1,000, Family $2,000
• Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation Pay): 18 days in the first year for FT team members
• Seven Paid Holidays with an additional Floating Holiday
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Match: 50% match up to 8% of total compensation
• Company-Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Career & Logo wear
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Clinical Career Ladders
• Certification Pay
• Generous Discover-a-Star Team Member Referral Program
• Team Member Service Awards
• Early Wage Access
• Legal and Identity Protection
• Robust Leadership Development Training Programs

Rewarding Work You Will Do:

• The purpose of this position is to provide services to meet the social and/or emotional needs that affect the participants' ability to achieve their goals; participate in the development and implementation of participant comprehensive care plans.
• Ensures compliance with regulations, professional licensing, and standards of practice.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of the stages and manifestations of change, loss, and grief, including complicated grief.
• Recognizes signs and symptoms of psychiatric illnesses.
• Identifies physical, behavioral, and affect changes to be reported to the attending physician or other team members.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills in discriminating between protection of sensitive medical/psychosocial data and compliance with applicable law and regulation regarding mandated reporting.
• Establishes therapeutic relationships and maintains healthy interpersonal boundaries with participants and families from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Demonstrates good psychosocial skills of participants from various age groups, including a working knowledge of cognitive stages, growth and development theory and manifestations.
• Demonstrates professional counseling skills encompassing but not limited to engaging participants and caregivers, reframing, reflecting, clarifying, affirming strengths, normalizing emotions, setting goals and limits, and involving participants in the plan of care.
• Identifies the need for consultation with other members of the interdisciplinary team or with experts in specialized areas of psychosocial practice.
• Demonstrates the ability to access various community resources.
• Assesses on an ongoing basis the psychosocial needs of participants and families based on emotional, environmental, financial, psychological, cognitive, social, cultural, and health factors.
• Assesses the impact of altered health status on the ability of the participant and family to employ adaptive coping mechanisms and manage the care of the participant.
• Initiates referrals to appropriate community resources and assists the participant and family in accessing resources.
• Assists the participant/family in applying for Medicaid benefits and other financial support.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team in the development, evaluation, and revision of the plan for psychosocial care of the participant/family unit. Involves the participant/family in determining care goals and objectives.
• Implements the plan of care such that goals and objectives are met.
• Completes reassessments of systems identified in the plan of care for ongoing monitoring and as warranted by participant needs.
• Provides short-term individual counseling to participants and families.
• Documents care provided and the response of the participant/family in a risk-neutral fashion; recognizes the sensitivity of psychosocial data and protects confidentiality of same; submits documentation in a timely manner that thoroughly reflects the intervention and care provided by the social worker and meets agency policy.
• Participates in the Counselor On-Call rotation.
• Models attendance at Colorado PACE events and in-services.
• Develops partnerships within the community and educates community members and healthcare providers about Midland services.
• Provides education related to Midland programs in alternate care settings (nursing homes, hospitals, assisted-living facilities, etc.)
• Monitors and responds to reports including Encounters, Attendance, QA, Satisfaction Surveys, Concern Reports, and Budget.

What We Are Going To Love About You:

• Minimum Education: Master's degree in Social Work required.
• Minimum Experience: One year experience working with older adults. Must have knowledge and skills with regard to health care coordination, pain/symptom management, crisis intervention and counseling. Three to five years of professional social work experience in health care or mental health preferred.
• Required License: Valid Colorado Driver's License and proof of Auto Insurance in accordance with state statute. Valid BLS Certification.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to lift/push/pull minimum of 30 lbs.

Care Synergy is a network of mission driven, nonprofit healthcare organizations dedicated to caring for very ill, frail, and primarily elderly individuals by keeping them at home and out of the hospital while maximizing comfort, dignity, and quality of life.

The Care Synergy enterprise includes a group of collaborating nonprofit Affiliates across Colorado's Front Range that share resources, expertise, and infrastructure to deliver high quality, compassionate care. Collectively, the enterprise generates approximately $100 million in annual revenue and serves thousands of individuals and families each year through hospice, home health, palliative care, CAPABLE, wellness, and PACE programs.

Across the Care Synergy network, the organizations provide significant community impact, including more than 7,000 hospice patients served annually, more than 2,000 palliative care patients, more than 355,000 hospice days of care each year, and more than $1.6 million in charitable care provided annually.

Care Synergy affiliated programs include The Denver Hospice, Pathways Hospice, Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, Colorado Visiting Nurse Association, CAPABLE, and Superior Medical Equipment, along with PACE programs including Colorado PACE and Pathways PACE.