CLIN SOCIAL WORKER 2/3

About the role

At UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, we recognize the challenges and stress that hospitalization, illness, or injury can bring to patients and their families. Clinical Social Workers play a key role in helping patients and families navigate these psychological stressors, providing support across all areas of the hospital. As integral members of the healthcare team, our Social Workers strive to reduce health disparities. The Clinical Social Worker II or Clinical Social Worker III (LCSW) will provide comprehensive psychosocial support to patients and families within UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital – San Francisco in Adolescent Medicine in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Responsibilities

• Psychosocial assessments
• Crisis intervention
• Counseling
• Brief therapeutic interventions
• Consultation
• Education
• Community linkage
• Facilitating the plan of care across the healthcare continuum
• Collaborate with the care team to coordinate resources and services, ensuring timely and safe discharges while addressing patients’ psychosocial needs
• Act as consultants to service lines, clinical teams, and departments
• Participate in program development and quality improvement initiatives
• Provide advanced clinical expertise (CSW III) with leadership in program planning, education, clinical supervision, and consultation
• Practice in alignment with UCSF’s mission of Caring, Healing, Teaching, and Discovering, and adhere to UCSF’s Everyday PRIDE values: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Excellence
• Provide social work services to all patients regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social, cultural, educational, or religious background, language, age, ancestry, citizenship, color, national origin, race, presence of mental or physical disability, source of payment for care, medical condition, marital status, or veteran status

Qualifications

• Master’s degree from a CSWE accredited school of Social Work
• Experience (internship/career) in a healthcare and/or hospital setting preferred
• Knowledge of relevant community resources commensurate with illness, symptoms, mental status, and impairments in functioning
• Knowledge of the medical and psychological sequelae of course of illness and impact on social functioning (may be specific to patient population)
• Demonstrates resourcefulness, effective written and oral communication,