Social Worker II

Social Worker II

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The social worker in this position will have a specialized role in clinical triage which includes direct patient care, screening referrals, addressing psychosocial needs according to acuity levels. This clinical social worker will have mastery in navigating multiple teams across the in-and out-patient setting. They will demonstrate adaptability and flexibility in working across teams and diagnoses.

The CSW II is responsible for employing a model of patient care that focuses on providing patients/caregivers with supportive counseling, psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions, education, and community resource support information. This position may involve clinical supervision to MSWs and/or BSW/MSW students and facilitation of support groups. The CSW II participates in multidisciplinary program development and evaluation; multidisciplinary treatment modalities; emergency/crisis response; and on-call rotation. The CSW II actively works to ensure optimal delivery of psychosocial care and seeks out performance improvement initiatives, either through direct involvement and committee membership or by leading performance improvement efforts. The CSW II is expected to assist in education and training programs, policy writing, and/or research and program development.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Provides timely, appropriate, reliable, and respectful social work services to patients and families.

• Demonstrates competence appropriate to his/her role and function

• Delivers quality of care consistent with professional and City of Hope standards.

• Uses effective decision-making, evaluation and problem-solving skills in managing patient care, hospital, and administrative needs.

• Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills; excellent documentation skills of all activities/decisions related to patient care in compliance with State, National and Joint Commission standards/regulations.

• Provides skilled psychosocial support and crisis management for patients throughout the continuum of care: diagnosis, living with cancer, recurrence, end-of-life, and survivorship.

• Acts as an ambassador to the profession by effectively articulating the role and expertise of a CSW and by actively participating in community and professional organizations.

• Demonstrates a willingness to participate in marketing and development efforts.

• Meets and maintains all professional and regulatory standards; represents and models the core values of the Department of Supportive Care Medicine.

• Participates in performance improvement activities to promote continuous improvement in care delivery.

• Strives to earn the respect and esteem of the team, department, organization and profession; fosters positive departmental and institutional morale.

• Demonstrates compassion, warmth, insight, basic skill in assessments and intervention, and maintains objectivity and professional boundaries.

• Possesses a working knowledge of the patient population at City of Hope.

Your qualifications should include:

Minimum Education:

• Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from a CSWE- Accredited School of Social Work.

Minimum Experience:

• Two years medical social work

• One-year oncology social work (Preferred).

Req. Certification/Licensure:

• Out of state Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Active registration as an

• Associate Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences

• CSW II must pass the LCSW exam and become a LCSW in the state of

• California within one year or be demoted to CSW I

• For pediatric service, CCS Panel provider or complete application within 60 days of hire

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.