Clinical Social Worker CM- Palliative Care Clinic

UC Health • Aurora, CO

48d • $34 - $51 • Onsite

About The Position

This position is specifically for a Palliative Care Social Worker within the University of Colorado Hospital Palliative Care Clinic. Assists in facilitating values-based goals of care discussions, advance care planning conversations, and transitions of care for palliative care service patients. Assesses patients and/or patient's family, caregivers, and/or legal representatives and arranges for needed interventions. Plans palliative care-focused interventions to help patients cope with physical, social, emotional, economic, and environmental concerns and provides short term treatment planning for grief support.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Social Work.
• Required Licensure/Certification: State licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).

Nice To Haves

• Commitment to obtaining Palliative Care certification within 2 years.
• Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience in the hospital setting. Palliative Care clinical experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides specialty-level palliative care psychosocial support to palliative care service patients through direct counseling and collaborative visits, with cultural humility and sensitivity.
• Performs and documents palliative care psychosocial assessments on palliative care service patients.
• Collaborates and serves as a resource for social worker team members working with palliative care service patients in the hospital.
• Collaborates and assists the palliative care service in patient-family meetings for values-based goal setting and care planning.
• Participates in resourcing of outpatient services relevant to the palliative care service patients.
• Coordinates educational and outreach services relevant to the social service-palliative care interface.
• Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage including coverage for eligible dependents
• 403(b) with employer matching contributions
• Time away from work: paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence; start your employment at UCHealth with PTO in your bank
• Employer-paid basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options
• Employer paid short term disability and long-term disability with buy-up coverage options
• Wellness benefits
• Full suite of voluntary benefits such as flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, health savings accounts (available with HD/HSA medical plan only), identity theft protection, pet insurance, and employee discount programs
• Education benefits for employees, including the opportunity to be eligible for 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees. Other programs may qualify for up to $5,250 pre-paid by UCHealth or in the form of tuition reimbursement each calendar year
• UCHealth is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! UCHealth provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness through Savi.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees