Medical Social Worker - Social Services - Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center - Full Time - Evening Shift - TEMPORARY POSITION

This is a temporary position with an expected end date in February 2027, available only to existing members of the ratified UNAC Bargaining Unit.

Schedule

• Shift Start Time: 3 PM
• Shift End Time: 11:30 PM
• 8-hour shift, 40 hours per week
• No weekends
• No on-call required

Pay

• Hourly Pay Range: $42.790 – $61.840
• Placement within the range is based on years of experience in alignment with the collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

Responsibilities

Assess the psychosocial needs

• Completes psychosocial assessments.
• Identifies key clinical issues such as grief and loss, adjustment to illness, psychiatric concerns, with attention to developmental milestones and life transitions.

Communication

• Documents assessment findings per department guidelines.
• Consults with team members in development of treatment plans.
• Maintains ongoing communication with multi-disciplinary team members regarding patient status and follow-up.
• Documents ongoing progress with patients/families in the medical record as required by policy and regulatory agencies.
• Attends rounds in major practice areas.
• Documents consultation, recommendations, interventions, and treatment plans.
• Identifies and communicates needs for patient care conferences.
• Arranges/participates in patient care conferences for difficult/high-risk psychosocial cases.

Community Resource

• Utilizes and refers to internal hospital and community resources to assist patients and families.
• Facilitates timely discharge of patients.
• Provides referral to patients and families for ongoing community services/support after leaving the hospital.

Consultation and Support

• Consults and intervenes in crisis situations.
• Assists staff in de-escalating volatile situations.
• Educates other staff in handling Code Green situations.
• Coordinates and facilitates critical incident debriefings.
• Develops nursing education to increase staff knowledge.

Patient Advocate

• Encourages patient and family participation in the decision-making process.
• Reports all mandatory protective concerns such as Elder Abuse, Child Abuse, and Domestic Violence as required by law.
• Protects patient privacy by maintaining confidentiality.
• Keeps current with regulatory and legal requirements regarding patient privacy and confidentiality standards.
• Identifies bio-ethical dilemmas and initiates appropriate responses.

Patient Goals and Intervention

• Develops and implements treatment goals addressing identified needs.
• Practices appropriate boundary setting with clients.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity.
• Effective at crisis intervention and problem-solving techniques; serves as a resource to others in these areas.
• Seeks resources when faced with unusual or new situations.
• Utilizes appropriate treatment modalities including individual, conjoint, and group.

Plan of Care

• Evaluates patient/family response to interventions.
• Revises care provided to patients/families.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Social Work (required).
• California BBS Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) (preferred).
• Hospital experience (preferred).