Licensed Clinical Social Worker III, Women's Health
$118,102–$165,339 year
On-siteSanta Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Conduct biopsychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, and short-term counseling for patients and families across all care settings. Facilitate support groups, provide psycho-education, and serve as a liaison to community programs while collaborating with the interdisciplinary team on discharge planning. Independently practice clinical skills including grief counseling, motivational interviewing, and behavioral change therapy to assist patients in adjusting to illness and navigating transitions of care. This full-time, 32-hour Monday through Friday role requires an LCSW with two years of recent relevant experience. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in assessing mental health functioning, suicidal behavior, and substance use, alongside knowledge of local resources and bioethics. Sutter Health empowers employees to apply their passion for healing in innovative ways to support patient and family goals.
Required Qualifications
- Master's: Social Work or related field
- LCSW-Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- 2 years recent relevant experience
- Clinical skills in biopsychosocial assessment and clinical interventions, including crisis intervention, intervention with patient/family behavioral issues, grief counseling, supportive counseling, adjustment to illness, life review/end of life support, behavioral change therapy, motivational interviewing, short-term family counseling, group facilitation
- Collaboration skills and ability to work effectively on a team
- Skills in patient and family advocacy
- Knowledge of transitions of care and community resources
- Knowledge of post-acute levels of care and resource needs for discharge planning
- Knowledge of child, elder and dependent adult abuse, crimes against persons reporting requirements, and other significant regulations affecting clinical social work practice (e.g. Tarasoff, patient confidentiality)
- Knowledge of behavioral health and the skills to assess mental health functioning, high risk behaviors, depression, anxiety, or other psychiatric conditions impacting hospitalization or transitions of care
- Knowledge of suicidal behavior, and the skills necessary to assess lethality, and to develop and implement an appropriate plan of care
- Knowledge of substance use and the skills to assess level of addiction, motivation for change, and to develop and implement an appropriate plan of care
- Knowledge and understanding of the influence of cultural and spiritual values in social work practice
- Knowledge and skills necessary to provide psychosocial care appropriate to the age-specific needs of newborns, children, adolescents, adults and elders
- Knowledge of palliative care, goals of care discussions, and the psychosocial needs of the patient and family at end-of-life
- Knowledge of bioethics and legal issues impacting patient care
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing
- Must demonstrate interpersonal and organizational skills, to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities and competing demands
- Proficient in using a computer to accurately enter and extract data, send and receive email, calendar appointments, and use task lists as will be using a variety of computer software programs
- Knowledge of local county / state / federal resources for at-risk population
- Days Schedule
- Full Time
- Shift Hours: 8
- Monday - Friday
- Weekend Requirements: None
- Non-Exempt
- Weekly Hours: 32
- Regular
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