At RVNAhealth, you can experience satisfying and challenging work that makes a real difference in people’s lives, every day. We are an agency where you can feel valued and achieve professional growth and development with personal fulfillment.

Why RVNAhealth?

RVNAhealth (formerly known as RVNA, the Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association) is an eleven-time winner of the Hearst Media Top Workplaces Award. We offer rewarding career opportunities where you can make an enormous impact.

Benefits of Working at RVNAhealth

RVNAhealth is committed to providing an exceptional, supportive, and progressive work environment for each employee. We offer:

Competitive compensation

Extensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 403(b) plan with matching contributions, life and disability insurance plans

Paid time off

Personal Wellness Days

A supportive and employee-centric culture

Comprehensive orientation

Career path

Ongoing educational, training and certification opportunities

Wellness programs

Work-life balance: full-time, part-time, and per-diem opportunities

The Palliative Care LCSW will provide essential emotional support, counseling, and care coordination, conducting home visits to help clients and their families establish effective palliative care at home. This position will support the Central/South Fairfield County Region.

Responsibilities:

Performs initial psychosocial assessments and assists in the development and implementation of goal-directed palliative care plan and next steps.

Conducts ongoing reassessments, goals of care conversations of patient/family needs and counseling as required.

Provides short term crisis intervention and individual or family counseling when indicated.

Provides services, under the direction of a physician (who approves plan of care).

Referrals to community resources as appropriate.

Intervening in client crisis situations.

Educating clients and families about their treatment plan and the resources and support systems available to them.

Addressing a client’s physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being in all disease stages.

Conducting home visits to help clients and their families establish effective palliative care at home.

Providing psychosocial education to patients and family caregivers about coping skills, hospice and palliative care philosophy.

Observes, assesses information regarding psychosocial, emotional, physical and financial conditions affecting the patient and family. Assist in understanding the significant social and emotional factors related to client’s health problems.

Assumes the active role of advocate for the patient/family/caregiving unit.

Conduct home visits to help clients and their families establish effective palliative care at home.

Provide counseling and psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families.

Provide psychosocial education to patients and family caregivers about coping skills, hospice and palliative care philosophy, and nonpharmacological symptom management strategies.

Address psychological and social needs to support patients living with serious illness, and their families.

Provide grief counseling, family counseling, and assist families by coordinating care details and research helpful resources and benefits.

Provide education to community regarding Palliative care, services, philosophy.

To offset census at times, may be requested to see home health patients

Experience and Qualifications

Master’s degree in social work from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education

LCSW in the state of Connecticut required

At least two years of social work experience, after a master’s degree has been obtained

Palliative Care or Hospice experience required

RVNAhealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. RVNAhealth is committed to building a workplace where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized.

This agency is independently owned and operated. Your application will go directly to the agency, and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of this agency. All inquiries about employment at this agency should be made directly to the agency location and not to the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home.