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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership, and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a Social Worker to our growing Social Work team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.
At UConn Health, this class is accountable for independently performing a full range of tasks in providing direct social work services to patients and families. This position will provide social work services for the Cancer Center population in the outpatient setting in addition to occasional inpatient coverage at UConn Health located in Farmington, CT
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED: https://h.uconn.edu/benefits-uhp-salary
SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Works under the general supervision of an employee of higher grade.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED: May lead/supervise lower rank staff members and other staff as assigned.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
- Assists with intake coordination
- Performs psychosocial assessments on new and continued patients
- Assist and arrange for discharge planning and transition of care for skilled nursing facilities, acute care and home care services.
- Work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary teams including Nursing, Case Manager, Physicians, Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy
- Works independently and/or collaborates with staff in formulating and implementing treatment plans
- Attends rounds, staff and team meetings and case conferences to provide social work consultation and/or referral for further intervention
- Leads psychotherapy groups
- Provides direct clinical social work with individual patients; conducts family meetings
- Consults with other staff and community resources
- Records significant psychosocial data in patient charts
- Prepares summaries and reports to other agencies
- May provide court testimony as an expert witness
- Conforms to institutional, department and professional standards
- Maintains patient confidentiality
- May participate in training residents and students
- May supervise social work/public health students
- Performs other duties as required
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:
- Considerable knowledge of principles, procedures and techniques of medical and/or psychiatric social work services
- Considerable knowledge of social, psychological, psychiatric, medical, economic and legal factors influencing individual and group behavior
- Considerable knowledge of group dynamics and case work methods
- Considerable knowledge of community resources
- Considerable interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills
- Ability to plan and execute effective service programs meeting client needs
- Ability to work autonomously to make decisions effecting patients and families
- Ability to respond to crises under pressure and deadlines
- Ability to work with chronically and terminally ill or physically impaired individuals and their families
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
General Experience:
- Master's degree from an accredited school of social work and two (2) years of relevant experience, preferably in a medical/health science setting for the medical services and psychiatric health services.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must possess and maintain licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Connecticut
- May be required to travel
- May be required to be bilingual
SCHEDULE: Full time, 80 hours every two weeks, primarily 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, weekends and holidays as assigned to support departmental needs, 30 minute unpaid meal break.
Why UConn Health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
