Clinical Social Worker

Job Summary

The Clinical Social Worker (CSW) III primary responsibilities are psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, counseling, brief therapeutic interventions, consultation, education, community linkages, supportive services, and facilitate the plan of care through the health care continuum for patients, families, and staff, with particular focus on high-risk populations. The CSW III acts as a consultant to the clinical team, service lines and other departments and participates in program development and quality improvement initiatives.

The Clinical Social Worker III will provide therapeutic support to patients and their families followed by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco.

This CSW III is a pediatric social worker who will provide guidance, empowerment, and assistance for patients and families as they navigate their wellness paths The CSW III coordinates resources and services in response to a patient's psychosocial needs while collaborating with care team members to support timely and safe discharges and/or meet the continuum of care needs within the fiscal realities of the case.

The CSW III will practice within the scope of UCSF's mission statement: Caring, Healing, Teaching, Discovering; and the values statement of UCSF's Everyday PRIDE: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Excellence.

The CSW III will participate in department education and practice improvement activities. The CSW III has advanced clinical knowledge and skills and is distinguished from the CSW II by leadership activities including participation in advanced program planning, provision of educational programs, clinical supervision, and consultation to the clinical team, other departments, and the community.

The CSW III will provide social work services to any patient 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 status as a veteran and will provide age-appropriate assessments, interpretation of data, and delivery of interventions.

The CSW III will provide oversight of a specialized social service program. This social worker is part of the deaf/hard-of-hearing (DHH) care team in the UCSF Children's Communication Center, and provides specialized social work services to DHH children, including educational support for DHH services, therapy and counseling for DHH-specific mental health needs for parent and children, and guidance for DHH-specific social and community services, including American Sign Language classes and deaf mentorship programs.

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.

Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

The salary range for this position is $43.04 - $74.34 (Hourly Rate).

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Required Qualifications

• A Master's degree from an accredited school of social work, possession of a clinical social worker license issued by the California Board of Behavioral Science Examiners, and three years of post-master's experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledges and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
• Knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
• Demonstrates resourcefulness, effective written and oral communication, diplomacy, organizational and analytic skills.
• Self-directed, assertive and creative in problem solving, systems planning and patient care management in a high volume work environment.
• Basic Computer skills.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
• Able to provide age-appropriate assessments, interpretation of data, and delivery of interventions. Demonstrates the ability to work with any patient and family regardless of race, gender, religious affiliation, cultural beliefs, lifestyle, and disease process or treatment plan.
• Experience (internship/career) in a healthcare, mental health, and/or child protection working with children and families.
• Experience in crisis de-escalation and trauma informed care.
• Demonstrates resourcefulness, effective written and oral communication, diplomacy, and organizational and analytic skills.
• Self-directed, assertive and creative in problem solving, systems planning and patient care management in a high-volume work environment
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
• Proficient text/pager, telephone, and computer skills including the use of the internet.
• This position requires flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.
• The CSW III has advanced clinical knowledge and skills and is distinguished from the CSW II by leadership activities including participation in advanced program planning, provision of educational programs, clinical supervision, consultation to the clinical team, other departments, and the community.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with pediatric patients
• Experience working with patients living with chronic medical conditions
• Flexibility to work occasional weekends or evenings
• Second language, Spanish.
• Three years experience in a hospital setting preferred.