Full-Time Home Health Social Worker MSW-Days-Northern Chester/Montgomery Co.-Penn Medicine at Home
West Chester, PAFull-timeSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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The Social Worker supports patients and families receiving medical home care through individualized care planning, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with the Interdisciplinary Team. The role helps patients obtain services and resources, supports transitions in care and to hospice when appropriate, and provides guidance on advance directives. It also assesses biopsychosocial systems and identifies social or psychological risks.
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Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
Summary:
- The Social Worker assists patients and families with medical related questions and concerns by providing individualized care planning, assessment, intervention and evaluation in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team. He/she will assist patients and families receiving medical home care services with support in obtaining needed services, resources and will guide the medical home care patient and family to transition to hospice service if appropriate. The Social Worker will help guide families through transitions in care and provide guidance and/or support in the completion of advance directives. He/she will work to understand and support struggling patients and families by using their understanding of the impacts of grief and loss.
Responsibilities:
- Communicates with patients and family members in a friendly, caring and informative manner.Communicates effectively and appropriately with co-workers, supervisors and other hospital and health system employees.Preserves confidentiality, privacy and dignity of patients and visitors, according to PMAH policy.Acts as a member of the team to the patient family and interdisciplinary staff.Anticipates probable patient /customer physical and emotional needs are met. Responds with empathy to patient, families and other staff members. Keeps current with new providers, new technologies and treatment modalities, and new resources using internet and other sources.Participates as part of an Interdisciplinary Team in the formulation and ongoing evaluation of an individualized, age-specific, culturally responsive Plan of Care for each patient and family.Assesses complex biopsychosocial systems and identifies patients and families at social or psychological risk.
Credentials:
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Car Insurance (Required)
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Driver's License (Required)
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LCSW or LSW (Required)
Education or Equivalent Experience:
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Master of Arts or Science (Required)
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Education Specialization:Social WorkEquivalent Experience:•And 2+ years of post-Masters experience with 1-2 years of related experience
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
Live Your Life's Work
We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,340 open Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Pennsylvania median$59–81K/yr23 salary ranges
- US median$31–45/hr904 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 123 open Social Worker jobs in Pennsylvania and 3,340 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- Geisinger13 open
- Penn Medicine (this employer)12 open
- UPMC8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Social Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (1,630 postings).
- Education
- 2,144 of the 3,340 open Social Worker jobs (64%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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