# Clinical Social Worker **Company**: Intermountain Health **Location**: St George **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $35.60 - $54.93 per hour **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://imh.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IntermountainCareers/job/Intermountain-Health-St-George-Regional-Hospital/Social-Worker---Cancer-Center_R183364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_379f933d-662 ## Description The Clinical Social Worker utilises clinical expertise to perform psychosocial assessments, develop and implement plans of care, assess crisis situations, and provide family and individual treatment as indicated. This position works collaboratively with patients, patient's significant other, families, healthcare providers, insurers, community resources, and all other involved parties. **Responsibilities:** - Assess the patient's medical history, mental health history, and current presentation to understand the patient's needs from treatment. - Organise and prioritise daily work by assessing new, current, and discharging patient needs in area(s) of responsibility. - Diagnose and treat various mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders. - Perform social work consultation for patients and caregivers, conduct psychosocial assessments, and provide supportive, crisis bereavement, and other social work interventions as necessary. - Develop a plan of care either individually or with input from the patient, patient family and significant others, physicians, and other members of the healthcare team. - Modify care plans to reflect changes in patient status. - Refer patients to other services to improve their well-being, including community services, treatment programs, support groups, psychiatrists, or other mental health providers. - Educate, communicate, and coordinate with multiple patient care teams and outside agencies as necessary to ensure the patient receives quality care, a timely discharge, and to identify and resolve delays and issues. - Provide support and debriefing, in conjunction with the Employee Assistance Program, for staff members following adverse events. - Act as an advocate on behalf of patients and families, where appropriate, to ensure effective communication with multidisciplinary care team, outside agencies, and other resources as necessary. - Work with the multi-disciplinary team to develop a discharge plan to provide further care, services, and referrals to ensure continuity of care. - Complete timely and accurate documentation in the medical record using knowledge of documentation standards for the department to facilitate communication with team members. - Comply with federal, state, local, and clinical program/facility standards. - Act within the scope of the Mental Health Practice Act. - Identify patients at risk for potential avoidable delays, extended stay, readmission, financial, or complex discharge needs, and coordinate with care providers and leaders to reach optimal solutions. **Requirements:** - Master's Degree in Social Work from an accredited institution. - Current State Licensure as LCSW or LMFT. - Computer skills, i.e., email, word processing. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Experience with patients, families, and treatment teams. **Working Conditions:** - Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies. - Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations. - Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. - Frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc. - Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. **Schedule:** - Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM - 40 hours per week **Salary:** - $35.60 - $54.93 per hour ## Skills ### Required - social work - psychosocial assessments - crisis intervention - care planning - communication - documentation ### Nice to have - LCSW - LMFT - CMHC - Psychologist --- Source: [Apply at imh.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com](https://imh.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IntermountainCareers/job/Intermountain-Health-St-George-Regional-Hospital/Social-Worker---Cancer-Center_R183364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)