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LCSW Oncology Clinical Social Worker - PRN

Northside Hospital
place Atlanta, 30320
Experience:
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Cancer
Stress
ECT
Individuals
Cancer Patients

About Job

Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.
The Oncology Clinical Social Worker provides a wide variety of psychological and social work interventions to center’s patients, families, and significant others. These services have been developed to remove any psychosocial barriers, which inhibit the treatment process. Provides support services to patients in order to meet the individual needs of the patients, to coordinate treatment, to assist the client with achieving the best possible functional level, to maximize symptom self-management and to enhancing quality of life and recovery. Provides crisis intervention, distress screening, risk assessments and connect patients to community resources. The Oncology Clinical Social Worker provides a wide variety of psychological and social work interventions to center’s patients, families, and significant others. These services have been developed to remove any psychosocial barriers, which inhibit the treatment process. Provides support services to patients in order to meet the individual needs of the patients, to coordinate treatment, to assist the client with achieving the best possible functional level, to maximize symptom self-management and to enhancing quality of life and recovery. Provides crisis intervention, distress screening, risk assessments and connect patients to community resources.
REQUIRED:
  • Master’s degree from an accredited program in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling or related mental health discipline with an emphasis on clinical experience.
  • Three years experience past Master’s in the mental health field.
  • One year of experience working with oncology patients
  • Licensed as a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) or LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor)
  • Must be CPR certified.

PREFERRED:
  • Prior clinical experience providing outpatient mental health or inpatient psychiatric services.
  • Specialized training in cancer care through continued education and on the job experience

Professional Field

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Patient Focus

Diagnoses

Avoidant Personality Disorder
Cancer

Issues

Stress

Therapeutic Approach

Methodologies

ECT

Modalities

Individuals

Practice Specifics

Populations

Cancer Patients
Racial Justice Allied

Settings

In-patient Non-Psychiatric
In-patient Psychiatric
Partial Hospitalization (PHP)
Home Health/In-home