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Job Name
CLIN SOCIAL WORKER 3
Department
8360020 - SOCIAL WORK CHILDRENS SERVICES SFMED
Position type
Full Time
Workplace
Fully On-Site
Primary Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Job ID
2309

Description & Requirements

Job Description

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 include psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, counseling, brief therapeutic interventions, consultation, education, community linkage, and facilitating the plan of care across the healthcare continuum.

 

The CSW II/III collaborates with the care team to coordinate resources and services, ensuring timely and safe discharges while addressing patients’ psychosocial needs. They act as consultants to service lines, clinical teams, and departments, and participate in program development and quality improvement initiatives.

 

The CSW III brings advanced clinical expertise, distinguished by leadership in program planning, education, clinical supervision, and consultation. Both CSW II and III 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.

 

Social work services are provided 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
Required Qualification - Master’s degree from a CSWE accredited school of Social Work. - Current California State License of Clinical Social Work in good standing (CSW III). - Experience (internship/career) in healthcare, mental health, and/or child protection working with children and families. - Experience in crisis de-escalation and trauma informed care. - Knowledge and abilities are essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position. - Demonstrate 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. Preferred Qualifications - Experience working with pediatric/adolescent patients, preferred. - Second language, Spanish.
License / Certification
2124-Social Work, Lic Clinical Social Worker

Additional Details

Job Code
CLIN SOCIAL WORKER 3 (009313)
Assignment Category
Career
IAP Level
Staff Plan (target potential payout of $900, maximum of $1,800)
Job Family
Care Coordination
Campus 1
Benioff Children's Hospital in Mission
Campus 2
Prizker Psychiatry Building (SF)
Campus 3
Mission Bay (SF)
Percentage (%)
100
Shift Length
8 hours
Shift Type
Day
Bargaining Unit
HX
Additional Shift Details
Monday-Friday
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