Job description:
Position: Social worker
Location: Melrose Park, IL 60153
Shift: 8 am to 4:30 pm
Contract: 13 weeks
Guaranteed hour: 40

Job description:

1. To work as a team member in the multidisciplinary team consisting doctors, nursing and paramedical staff. To coordinate and help the patients, family and other team members. Maintain liaison with the hospital team.

2. To make the patient and his family understand the medical problem or disability he is suffering from, in a language the patient and his family can understand. To help the patient cope with the disability/illness and make him adjust to it emotionally.

3. To assess the social condition of the patients and provide appropriate counseling.

4. To help the patient find ways and means to financially manage with the illness/disability. Making the patient manage and tap resources for carrying out his treatment and support the family.

5. To help arrange financial support, for carrying out patients' treatment where needed from Governmental and Non-governmental organizations. In addition suggest ways to the patient and his family to reduce economic burden on the family.

6. To advice the patients/persons with disability on available disability benefits from the government and help them to get those benefits.

7. To help the patient/persons with disability and his family sort out inter-personal problems as a result of illness/disability. To help restore the role of such a person, such as a father, son, mother, daughter, husband or wife etc. in the family.

8. To help the person with disability/illness to adjust to his environment, including issues of removal of architectural barriers and encouraging independence in patients

9. To assist with the doctor in the discharge planning, making protocols, and to involve patient and family members in the social work.

10. To help the patient in smooth transition from hospital to the community and maintain the link with the patient, the community and the health services. To do follow up with family so as to stabilize the gains made during treatment. This may involve Case Work, one to one counseling method, Group Work and Community Organization.'

Skills & Experience

• Should have at least 2 to 3 years of experience as Social Worker

License/Certifications

• BLS (Required)

More about Staffing Agency:

Arreglo Healthcare is an award-winning travel healthcare company with an immediate opening for this Social Worker position in Melrose Park, IL 60153.

Why Choose Arreglo Healthcare?

Passionate and transparent team members have made Host Healthcare the agency of choice for new and experienced travelers looking for opportunities far away and close to home. Starting the day you apply, we’ll help you navigate each step of the process. Our recruiters act not only as your dedicated travel career mentor but also become your number one advocate. When you work with us, you can trust that we will help you with everything from travel, to housing, and acting as the liaison between you and the facility.

Travel Happy With Host Healthcare!
Host Healthcare offers amazing benefits and perks.

• We offer the best pay for our travelers.
• Day one medical, dental and vision insurance.
• License, travel, tuition, and scrub reimbursement.
• Matching 401k.
• Deluxe private housing or generous housing stipend.

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $40.00 - $45.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Referral program

Medical specialties:

• Addiction Medicine
• Geriatrics
• Holistic Medicine
• Home Health
• Pediatrics
• Primary Care
• Psychiatry

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Night shift

Experience:

• Social work: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• Licensed Certified Social Worker (Required)

Work Location: One location

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