Clinical Social Worker

Overview CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.

S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.

S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection.

With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Responsibilities The Clinical Social Worker is responsible for performing social work assessments and interventions as needed for inpatients outpatients and emergency department patients.

They are dedicated to patient and family centered care that values personal self-determination skilled at managing multiple priorities at once and engaging in creative compassionate and ethical problem-solving.

As a member of a multidisciplinary health team they perform comprehensive assessments and develop treatment plans that integrate the medical social and resource issues that impact individual patients families and at risk populations.

Clinical Social Workers are responsible for working collaboratively with all healthcare team members to develop and implement treatment plans that support patient-centered plan of care for both individual patients and the medical community.

The functions of the Clinical Social Worker includes crisis intervention patient / family intervention high risk screening brief counseling referring for financial or other identified resource needs arrange and facilitate family / patient representative meetings with the health care team as needed assist in post acute placement on complex discharges and engagement of appropriate agencies or community resources when high risk patients are identified.

The Clinical Social Worker establishes and maintains professional relationships with physicians case managers nursing staff county agencies community resources patients and families.

The position will be required to serve on hospital committees and take part in developing and presenting in-services to Hospital staff.

• Qualifications + At least two years of clinical and / or medical social work experience.+ Master's Degree from a School of Social Work accredited by the Council of Social Work Education+ BLS- Basic Life Support+ Knowledge of contemporary behavioral and systems theories relevant to health care;
• end-of-life dynamics and interventions; grief and bereavement counseling; substance abuse identification and interventions;

support for victims of abuse neglect or violence; community or financial resources for underserved or vulnerable populations.

SSDI SDI and other governmental / county requirements / programs.+ Thorough comprehension of OBRA and Title 22.+ Licensed Clinical Social Worker preferred.

Pay Range $39.28 - $46.70 / hourWe are an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer.