Social Worker PACE

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) and EIB (Extended Illness Bank): 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

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.

Colorado PACE is affiliated with Care Synergy, a nonprofit network of community-based hospice and palliative care organizations serving Colorado’s Front Range and the Region’s Largest Home Health, Hospice, and Palliative Care Network. Care Synergy provides mission support services to better equip Colorado PACE to operate as a distinct and independent organization while working together to share best practices and serve more Coloradans along the Front Range.

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.