Social Worker III - ED/Inpatient

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 Emergency Department and Inpatient 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. Emergency Department social work coverage is 24/7, split into 12-hour shifts, including: days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. This position will be scheduled primarily 8-hour shifts, 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM, rotating days off, weekend and holiday rotation. 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: 100

Benefits 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

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The University of Iowa offers a generous benefits package, including 24 days paid vacation per year to start and paid sick leave. Complete information regarding the full benefits package may be viewed at: https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits/fpsm.

The department intends to hire for one position from either Social Worker II or Social Worker III based on the qualifications of the successful candidate. Please apply to the specific position for which you wish to be considered or both.