Pediatrics Social Worker III
Company: The University of Iowa
Location: iowa city
Posted on: May 3, 2021
Job Description:
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics department of
Care Coordination is seeking a Social Worker III to provide direct
social work services including assessment, treatment,
interventions, and recommendations to facilitate movement through
the continuum of care to pediatric patients and their families.
This role will also participate in and provide the social work
perspective to interdisciplinary activities, as well as provide
social work treatment, individually or in groups, to patients and
clients and their families with complex emotional or social
problems. Additionally, this position assumes basic consultation,
supervisory, teaching, research, program development, and/or
administrative responsibilities. Duties to include: Develops and
implements plan of care, responsive to patient/family concerns,
health care status, available resources, age-specific problems, and
clinical impressions. Identifies patients requiring social work
intervention through use of case finding. Performs social work
assessments with patient and/or family involvement. Develops
clinical impressions and rates severity of problems for planned
interventions. Provides range of social work services responsive to
identified problems (e.g., help with psychosocial functioning, help
with adaptation to illness, facilitating services, protective
services, post-hospital planning, etc.). Provide detailed job
responsibilities Provides information, consultation and
professional support to interdisciplinary team members. Provides
information to team members regarding psychosocial issues and their
impact. Informs team members of social work treatment goals and
patient status and progress and collaborates with team regarding
service provision. Acts as resource for team (e.g., participates in
patient care rounds, team conferences, etc.) Advocates for the
social work role with health care team members. Uses body of social
work knowledge & understanding of human behavior to remedy
team-related issues and help team members evaluate and enhance team
functioning. Develops and facilitates groups for patients and/or
significant others as appropriate. Identifies goals and structure
for group work services. Provides therapy, educational, and/or
support group services reflecting diagnosis- and age-related
issues. Evaluates effectiveness of group and revises as necessary.
Contributes to strengthening the social work profession.
Participates in local, regional, state or national social work or
health care-related groups. Contributes to the development,
strengthening and delivery of needed health and social services.
Participates in departmental and unit-based activities.University
of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics-recognized as one of the best hospitals
in the United States-is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical
center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12,000
employees, students, and volunteers work together to provide safe,
quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Simply
stated, our mission is: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.Our
primary and specialty care is provided by experts from all medical
specialties, attracting patients from around the world. We offer
our care in convenient, comfortable settings, using the most
advanced approaches and with the best outcomes as our goal.Percent
of Time: 100Benefits Highlights: Regular salaried position located
in Iowa City, Iowa Fringe benefit package including paid vacation;
sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options;
and generous employer contributions into retirement plans For more
information about Why Iowa?, click hereThe University of Iowa
offers a generous benefits package, including paid vacation and
paid sick leave. Complete information regarding the full benefits
package may be viewed at:
https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits/fpsm.Required Qualifications Master's
degree with a major concentration in social work 6 months-1 year of
clinical social work experience A license to practice social work
in Iowa Excellent written and verbal communication skillsDesirable
Qualifications Some familiarity with social work undergraduate
education Recent social work experience in a health care setting
with pediatric patients and their families. Experience with
identifying and navigating financial resources, including insurance
coverage options, changes related to the federal and state health
programs, and the disability process. Experience working with
community resources, home healthcare, nursing facilities and other
options available for patients in outpatient settings Experience in
a fast paced, high volume work environment Care coordination
experience or case management skills in a health care setting as
part of an interdisciplinary team including experience utilizing an
electronic medical record to assist with management of
non-adherence, post-care follow-up and referrals to appropriate
resourcesApplication Process: In order to be considered, applicants
must upload a cover letter and resume (under submission relevant
materials) that clearly address how they meet the listed required
and desired qualifications of this position. Job openings are
posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. Successful candidates
will be subject to a criminal background check. This position is
not eligible for University sponsorship for employment
authorization.
Keywords: The University of Iowa, Iowa City , Pediatrics Social Worker III, Other , iowa city, Iowa
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