Temporary Social Worker (Care Coordination Division)

The University of Iowa Healthcare department of Care Coordination is seeking a temporary Social Worker III to provide direct social work services including assessment, treatment, interventions, and recommendations to facilitate movement through the continuum of care to 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.

Percent of Time: TBD, 24 hours per month. Normal Monday - Friday business hours.

ED coverage and willingness to work evening hours preferred.

• A 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 skills