Social Worker (LMSW/LISW) - Ambulatory Palliative Care

Medical University of South Carolina•Charleston, SC

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Ambulatory Palliative Care Social Worker serves as an essential member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team, providing comprehensive psychosocial support to patients with serious illness and their families. This role focuses on whole-person care, identifying and addressing social determinants of health, facilitating complex care discussions, improving care coordination, and enhancing quality of life across the disease trajectory. The Ambulatory Palliative Care Social Worker (LMSW/LISW preferred) serves as a core member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team, providing comprehensive psychosocial assessment, counseling, crisis intervention, and resource navigation for adults with serious illness and their families. This full-time role supports rising patient volumes and complexity by facilitating goals-of-care conversations, advance care planning, caregiver support, and connections to community resources such as hospice, while helping reduce avoidable ED visits, improve transitions of care, and enhance delivery of goal‑concordant, whole‑person care. The position ensures alignment with national palliative care guidelines, relieves clinicians of tasks within the social work scope, supports key strategic initiatives including transitions clinics and oncology integration, and strengthens MUSC’s ability to improve patient experience, reduce total costs of care, and address social determinants of health in the ambulatory setting.

Requirements

Master's or Doctorate degree in social work from an accredited program.
4-6 years of work experience.
Current SC LISW license.

Nice To Haves

LMSW/LISW preferred

Responsibilities

Providing comprehensive psychosocial assessment, counseling, crisis intervention, and resource navigation for adults with serious illness and their families.
Facilitating goals-of-care conversations and advance care planning.
Providing caregiver support.
Connecting patients to community resources such as hospice.
Helping reduce avoidable ED visits and improve transitions of care.
Enhancing delivery of goal-concordant, whole-person care.
Ensuring alignment with national palliative care guidelines.
Relieving clinicians of tasks within the social work scope.
Supporting key strategic initiatives including transitions clinics and oncology integration.
Strengthening MUSC’s ability to improve patient experience, reduce total costs of care, and address social determinants of health in the ambulatory setting.