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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership, and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a Social Worker to our growing Social Work team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.

At UConn Health, this class is accountable for independently performing a full range of tasks in providing direct social work services to patients and families. This position will provide social work services at UConn Health located in Farmington, CT.

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED: https://h.uconn.edu/benefits-uhp-salary

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Works under the general supervision of an employee of higher grade.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May lead/supervise lower rank staff members and other staff as assigned.

SCHEDULE: This is a full time position, 80 hours every two weeks, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., rotating weekends and holidays as assigned.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

Assists with intake coordination
Performs psychosocial assessments on new and continued patients
Works independently and/or collaborates with staff in formulating and implementing treatment plans
Attends rounds, staff and team meetings and case conferences to provide social work consultation and/or referral for further intervention
Leads psychotherapy groups
Provides direct clinical social work with individual patients; conducts family meetings
Consults with other staff and community resources; engages patients and families in discharge planning
Records significant psychosocial data in patient charts
Prepares summaries and reports to other agencies
May provide court testimony as an expert witness
Conforms to institutional, department and professional standards
Maintains patient confidentiality
May participate in training residents and students
May supervise social work/public health students
Performs other duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

Considerable knowledge of principles, procedures, and techniques of medical social work services
Considerable knowledge of social, psychological, medical, economic, and legal factors influencing individual and group behavior
Considerable knowledge of group dynamics and case work methods
Considerable knowledge of community resources
Oral and written communication skills
Considerable interpersonal skills
Ability to plan/execute effective service programs to meet client needs
Ability to work autonomously to make decisions effecting patients and families and to respond to crises under pressure/deadline
Ability to work with chronically and terminally ill/physically impaired individuals and their families

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:

General Experience:

Master's degree from an accredited school of social work
Two (2) years of medical social work experience, preferably in a medical/health science setting for the medical services.

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Employees in this class must possess and retain a license to practice clinical social work (LCSW) in the State of Connecticut
Employees in this class may be required to travel
Incumbents in this class may be required to be bilingual.

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.