Social Worker I - Inpatient

This position is Benefit eligible; click here for an overview of available benefits

This position is covered by the UHP Bargaining Unit; click here to review the current UHP Contract.

This position is in salary group UHP-07; click here to review the current UHP Pay Plan.

Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top-rated organization is looking to add a Social Worker to our growing inpatient team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.

At UConn Health, this class is an entry level social worker accountable for performing a range of tasks in providing inpatient social work services to patients, families, and/or groups. This position is located in the University Tower at UConn Health in Farmington, CT.

Works under the general supervision of a higher-ranking Social Worker when performing routine tasks, receives closer supervision when performing more advanced tasks

May lead lower ranking employees as assigned

• Incumbents may be assigned to medical, surgical, psychiatric, pediatrics or any unit requiring the services of a social worker
  
• Performs psychosocial assessments on new and continuing patients and families
  
• Works in collaboration with staff in formulating treatment plans
  
• Attends rounds, staff and team meetings and case conferences to provide social work consultation and/or referral for further intervention
  
• Provides clinical social work with patients and families
  
• Consults with staff and community resources
  
• Engages patients and families in discharge planning
  
• Records significant psychosocial data in patient charts
  
• Prepare summaries and reports to other agencies
  
• Learns to conform to institutional, department and professional standards
  
• Maintains patient confidentiality
  
• Performs other duties as required
  

• Knowledge of principles, procedures and techniques of medical and/or psychiatric social work services
  
• Knowledge of social, psychological, psychiatric, medical, economic and legal factors influencing individual and group behavior
  
• Knowledge of group dynamics and case work methods
  
• Knowledge of community resources
  
• Ability to plan and execute service programs to meet client needs
  
• Ability to respond to crises under pressure/deadlines
  
• Ability to work with chronically and terminally ill/physically impaired individuals and their families
  
• Considerable oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
  

• A master's degree from an accredited school of social work
  

• Employees in this class must have LMSW credentials and obtain the necessary clinical/supervision experience and obtain a license to practice clinical social work (LCSW) in Connecticut within 2 years of hire.
  
• Employees in this class may be required to travel
  

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.