# Hospice Medical Social Worker

**Company:** [Calvary Hospital](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/i6e28DFNXFRmniEBp9byXi.md)
**Location:** Westchester, United States
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Hospice/Homecare

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## Description

**Overview:**

For over 125 years, Calvary Hospital and Calvary @Home located in the Bronx, New York has been dedicated to the palliative care of advanced cancer and other terminally ill patients and their families. Through a caring, compassionate, philosophy of non-abandonment, the hospice provides a full spectrum of palliative services, including emotional, spiritual, and physical care. The hospice receives patients from referring institutions throughout New York City and the entire tristate area. **When you come to Calvary Hospital, you're not just getting a job, you're joining a family.**

**Benefits/Perks:** 

-   Includes accrued vacation days, sick days, holidays, and free days.
-   Pension (vested after 5 years of full-time or part-time service)
-   Participation in 403 (b)
-   Voluntary Benefits: Short Term Disability, Life Insurance, Cancer Insurance, Flex Spending, Transit Check.
-   Free On-Site Parking

**Requirements**

The Hospice Social Worker provides medical social services, psychosocial and bereavement counseling to the hospice Patients and families.

**Qualifications:** 

-   Minimum one (1) year bereavement counseling experience is preferred.
-   At least one year of Hospice or Home Care experience preferred.
-   Excellent interpersonal, and communication skills.
-   Position requires ability to commute to multiple territories to ensure continuity of care.
-   A valid driver’s license is required.
-   A vehicle is required to commute to patients.  (This requirement does not apply to positions assigned exclusively to Manhattan territory)
-   Exhibits an ability and attitude relative to the spirit of caring and tradition at Calvary Hospital as required by specific job duties and functions.

**PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:**

Light Work:  Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or leg controls require exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.

**Education:** 

-   MSW from an accredited school of social work and one-year related experience.
-   LMSW or LCSW required.

**Region :** Westchester area

**Salary:** $94,995.35 - $102,735.04/annually