Description

Oncology Inpatient Social Worker

Patients receive thorough, effective clinical social work services that ensure psychosocial support, continuity of care, and address the unique needs of each patient and family. As a core member of the care team, the social worker effectively collaborates with a variety of disciplines in promoting optimal biopsychosocial care of the patient and families.

Fundamentals of Job:

Provides clinical consultations, psychosocial evaluations, and clinical interventions primarily in inpatient units and selected ambulatory settings, promptly, in compliance with departmental standards.
Consults/assists with complicated medical diagnoses; complicated social issues; protective issues; legal/ethical concerns; financial concerns; and works with the health care team in facilitating discharge processes complicated by social determinants of health challenges.
Provides education to other disciplines regarding the factors that present barriers to patients fully engaging in health care treatment. Understanding the impact of social determinants of health is essential to the social work focus on the person in the context of their environment.
Contacts collateral agencies and family members to complete social work assessments as appropriate.
Provides supportive therapy for patients and families relating to illness and/or hospitalization. Provides end-of-life counseling and support.
Guides patients/families through hospital services, accessing needed health and community services, as indicated. May assist with discharge planning and referral to community services in complex cases.
May participate in the training of social work students and trainees from other disciplines, in accordance with the hospital's commitment to train future health care professionals.
Professional Engagement 

Actively participates in multidisciplinary rounds and case conferences.
Establishes themselves as an integral part of the team and is present each day on the units to which assigned.
Develops and continually renews collaborative relationships & communications with their health care teams.
Participates in the weekend on-call program, coming in as needed for ED and inpatient consultation/intervention.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: 
1.    Master's degree in social work from an accredited school.
2.    A minimum of one year of experience in a health/mental health setting is required.
3.    LICSW
4.    Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
5.    Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams.
6.    Ability to exercise sound clinical judgment in fast-paced and demanding settings.