The Social Worker provides services to meet participants' social and emotional needs affecting goal achievement and participates in developing and implementing comprehensive care plans. Responsibilities include ongoing psychosocial assessments, initiating referrals, assisting with financial applications, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team, and providing short-term counseling.
Requirements summary
A Master’s Degree in Social Work is required, along with a minimum of one year of experience working with older adults, including knowledge of healthcare coordination and crisis intervention. A valid Colorado Driver’s License and proof of auto insurance are also mandatory.
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Job description
Colorado PACE has an immediate opening for a Social Worker MSW.
Location: Aurora, CO
Status: Full-time
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8-5
Pay Range
$63,273 - $79,726 annually (based on licensure of MSW/LSW/LCSW)
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/Sick
Leave): 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
Benefits
Paid Holidays
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Health Insurance
Floating Holiday
Paid Mileage
Education Reimbursement Program
Early Wage Access
Team Member Referral Program
Mileage and Expense Reimbursement
403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Match
Certification Pay
Company-Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
Shift Diffs
Stipends
Leadership Development Training Programs
Legal and Identity Protection
Career & Logo wear
Team Member Service Awards
Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation Pay/Sick Leave)
Clinical Career Ladders
Early Wage Access
Legal and Identity Protection
Robust Leadership Development Training Programs
Rewarding work you will do
Provides 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.
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 various 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 evaluate own therapeutic involvement, including identification of own stressors and life events that may impact ability to provide care.
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.
Identifies existing and potential problems based on assessment data and the availability of support systems and community resources.
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; 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.
Brings to each IDT and care planning meeting: social history (detailed on initial and annual assessments; otherwise, brief); current home and family situation; current psychosocial problems.
Ensures excellent customer service is provided.
Ensures compliance with regulations, professional licensing, and standards of practice.
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.
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.
If you need assistance completing the electronic application please contact our Talent Acquisition team via email at cs-recruitment@caresynergynetwork.org. You may also call the Human Resources Department at (303) 228-5647. Applications can be completed in-person at any one of our affiliate office locations.
The Organization does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, creed, ancestry, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation/identity, transgender status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment based on any of these protected classifications.
