Exam Number

PH9019B

Type Of Recruitment

We welcome applications from anyone.

First Day Of Filing

The application filing period will begin on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. (PT) - Continuous.

We will keep accepting applications until the position is filled. The application window may close unexpectedly once we have enough qualified candidates.

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The Team Member We Are Searching For

We are looking for someone who provides professional social work services to patients and families presenting difficult and compound medical and related psychological and social problems. In addition to providing direct patient services, the incumbent has responsibility for the social work activities of a small social work unit in a community ambulatory care setting.

Classification Standards

Positions allocable to this class are assigned to hospitals and ambulatory care settings and are characterized primarily by the highly specialized and difficult case assignments where the nature and extent of a patient's medical condition is life-threatening or has a dramatic impact upon the functioning and lifestyle of the patient and family.

• Senior Clinical Social Workers are encouraged to function with minimal technical supervision as they provide professional individualized treatment to accomplish changes in insight, attitudes, and motivation of patients and their family members to attain optimal health functioning.
• At this level, providing professional social work services to patients with such complex medical and psycho-social problems is regularly performed with infrequent recourse to supervisory guidance.
• Social work practice at the senior level demands highly professional skills and may include additional expertise in specific therapeutic methods such as reality therapy, behavior modification, and group therapy.
• All incumbents act as a consultant other health fields and community agencies about problems related to patient care and assessing unmet patient needs.
• Incumbents in these positions act as team leaders and coordinate social work functions as needed within a particular service by providing professional diagnostic and goal setting functions for the team members and by managing the system of case assignment. The evaluation, intervention planning, and resolution of problems not directly patient-related.
• Positions located in the community outpatient medical settings spend a majority of the time providing direct social work services to patients and family members while concurrently directing the work of a small social work unit.
• Assignment in an ambulatory facility includes developing and coordinating social work services with other programs within the respective area of assignment, formulating goals and objectives for the unit, and adapting policies and procedures to provide more effective social work services to patients.
• All positions in this class must possess an extensive knowledge of established professional social work standards and principles, pertinent policies and guidelines of the department and the assigned facility, community resources available for referral, and State and Federal social welfare laws and regulations.
• Incumbents must also possess oral and written communication skills to facilitate therapy sessions to both individuals and groups, to conduct interviews with patients and their families, to expand and to implement intervention plans, to coordinate social work services within their assigned facility, and to provide direction to team members.