Clinical Social Worker 2

UCSF•San Francisco, CA

2d•$61 - $80•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Social Worker II or III (LCSW) provides comprehensive psychosocial support to patients and families at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital – San Francisco, in inpatient and outpatient settings. The role includes psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, counseling, brief therapeutic interventions, consultation, education, community linkage, and helping facilitate the plan of care across the healthcare continuum. The position is with the inpatient Pediatric Palliative Care Team. The Clinical Social Worker collaborates with the care team to coordinate resources and services, support timely and safe discharges, and address patients’ psychosocial needs. The role serves as a consultant to service lines, clinical teams, and departments and participates in program development and quality improvement. The Clinical Social Worker III additionally brings advanced clinical expertise and leadership in program planning, education, clinical supervision, and consultation. Both levels practice in alignment with UCSF’s mission and PRIDE values and provide services to all patients without discrimination.

Requirements

For Clinical Social Worker II: master’s degree from a CSWE-accredited school of social work.
Knowledge of relevant community resources and of medical and psychological illness sequelae and their impact on social functioning, commensurate with the patient population.
Resourcefulness; effective written and oral communication; diplomacy; organizational and analytical skills.
Ability to work independently, assertively, and creatively in problem solving, systems planning, and patient-care management in a high-volume environment.
Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
Basic pager, telephone, and computer skills, including internet use.
Flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.
For Clinical Social Worker III: all Clinical Social Worker II requirements, plus a California Clinical Social Work license through the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
For Clinical Social Worker III: advanced clinical knowledge and skills, with leadership activity in program planning, education, clinical supervision, and consultation.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare and/or hospital setting experience, including internship experience, is preferred for Clinical Social Worker II.
Experience working with pediatric patients is preferred.
Spanish or another second language is preferred.

Responsibilities

Assess patients’ and families’ psychosocial risks, functioning, support systems, responses to illness, and ability to cope; provide appropriate psychosocial interventions.
Address the emotional, social, and financial consequences of illness or disability, including complex family dynamics affecting patient care and discharge.
For patients with significant psychosocial needs, serve as primary care manager in collaboration with case management, coordinating clinical resources and transition planning from admission through discharge and addressing barriers to care.
Meet with providers, care teams, and patients to establish medical-readiness goals and primary and backup discharge plans.
Coordinate and lead multidisciplinary rounds, monitor discharge milestones, assign accountability for tasks, and identify, address, or escalate discharge barriers.
Reassess patients as needed and adjust discharge plans; complete required documentation in APeX and patient records.
Participate in interdisciplinary care planning and complex-case rounds, contributing to team goals and plans of care.
Coordinate discharge planning and link patients with appropriate post-discharge care providers.
Educate patients, families, and physicians about post-acute care options and patient choice.
Assess, intervene in, and report domestic violence, child or elder abuse, and other reportable situations in accordance with legal requirements and UCSF policies.
Screen for suicidal or homicidal ideation and collaborate with Psychiatry, Child or Mobile Crisis, and other teams on psychiatric holds and complex behavioral health concerns.
Provide counseling and intervention related to treatment decisions and end-of-life issues; identify surrogate decision-makers and facilitate Advance Health Care Directives and POLST forms; coordinate probate conservatorship applications when appropriate.
Consult on custody issues, decision-making capacity, surrogate decision-makers, and court-order consents for surgery as appropriate.
Maintain timely, accurate, and complete medical-record documentation and collect required statistical data.
Attend department, hospital, and community in-services; participate in quality improvement, program planning, and service-line initiatives.
Oversee and direct activities delegated to the Resource Coordinator and/or Patient Care Navigator.
When available and directed by the Social Work Supervisor, provide clinical supervision to Clinical Social Worker II staff pursuing LCSW licensure, in compliance with California Board of Behavioral Sciences requirements.
Participate in coverage as assigned and comply with UCSF policies relevant to the scope of work.
For Clinical Social Worker III, provide advanced clinical leadership through program planning, education, clinical supervision, and consultation to clinical teams, departments, and the community.