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At UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, we recognize the challenges and stress that hospitalization, illness, or injury can bring to patients and their families. Clinical Social Workers play a key role in helping patients and families navigate these psychological stressors, providing support across all areas of the hospital. As integral members of the healthcare team, our Social Workers strive to reduce health disparities. The Clinical Social Worker II or Clinical Social Worker III (LCSW) will provide comprehensive psychosocial support to patients and families within UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco in Adolescent Medicine in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Responsibilities include psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, counseling, brief therapeutic interventions, consultation, education, community linkage, and facilitating the plan of care across the healthcare continuum. The CSW II/III collaborates with the care team to coordinate resources and services, ensuring timely and safe discharges while addressing patients' psychosocial needs. They act as consultants to service lines, clinical teams, and departments, and participate in program development and quality improvement initiatives. The CSW III brings advanced clinical expertise, distinguished by leadership in program planning, education, clinical supervision, and consultation. Both CSW II and III practice in alignment with UCSF's mission of Caring, Healing, Teaching, and Discovering, and adhere to UCSF's Everyday PRIDE values: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Excellence. Social work services are provided to all patients, regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social, cultural, educational, or religious background, language, age, ancestry, citizenship, color, national origin, race, presence of mental or physical disability, source of payment for care, medical condition, marital status, or veteran status. Department Description: Position is with the Cardiac Intensive Care Thursday-Friday and Inpatient Acute Care on Saturdays.
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Provide psychosocial assessment and interventions on the basis of preliminary risk screening, assesses patient's and family's psychosocial risk factors through evaluation of prior functioning levels, appropriateness and adequacy of support systems, reaction to illness and ability to cope.
Intervene with patient and families regarding emotional, social and financial consequences of illness and/or disability; illicit support of CSW III, as appropriate to deal with families exhibiting complex family dynamics that impact directly on patient care and discharge.
For patients with significant or intensive psychosocial needs, serve as primary care manager, working in close collaboration with case manager to manage the clinical resources and transition planning for patient within assigned caseload from admission through discharge, actively working to identify/eliminate barriers to delivery of clinical services required to advance care and promote timely discharge once medically ready. As primary care manager:
Meet with provider, care team and patient to identify goals for medical readiness and formulates primary/back-up discharge plan
Coordinate and lead multi-disciplinary rounds and monitor discharge milestones, assign accountability for tasks, and proactively identify and address/escalate barriers to timely discharge
Reassess patient, as needed, to make real-time adjustments to discharge plan
Complete all required documentation in APeX screens and patient records |
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Active member of the interdisciplinary team, specifically on complex psychosocial cases, contributing to team goal setting and plan of care through attendance, participation in, and facilitation of multi-disciplinary rounds (MDRs). |
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Assess, intervene with and report domestic violence, child/elder abuse and other reportable situations in accordance with legal mandates and UCSF policy and procedure. Collaborate with Psychiatry and other appropriate teams on cases with psychiatric holds or primary mental health/substance abuse problems and/or patients expressing suicidal or homicidal ideation.
Knowledge and skill with substance use and dependence assessment and intervention strategies, mental illness, end of life/bereavement, benefits and entitlements, and adjustment to illness.
Screen for suicidal/homicidal ideation and follow legal mandates, UCSF policy and procedures to assure patient safety. Collaborate with UCSF Psychiatry, Child or Mobile Crisis and other appropriate teams on cases meeting criteria for psychiatric holds or complex behavioral health concerns. |
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Serve as a resource person and provide counseling and intervention related to treatment decisions and end-of-life issues; identify surrogate decision maker, facilitate completion of Advance Health Care Directive and the POLST; when appropriate, coordinate application for probate conservatorship.
Consult on challenging custody issues to clarify decision-making capacity, identify surrogate decision maker, facilitate completion of Advance Health Care Directive when appropriate coordinate court order consents for surgeries |
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Minimum Required:
- Master's degree from a CSWE accredited school of Social Work.
- Experience (internship/career) in a healthcare and/or hospital setting preferred.
- Knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position, including knowledge of relevant community resources commensurate with illness, symptoms, mental status, and impairments in functioning and knowledge of the medical and psychological sequelae of course of illness and impact on social functioning (may be specific to patient population).
- Demonstrates resourcefulness, effective written and oral communication, diplomacy, and organizational and analytic skills.
- Self-directed, assertive and creative in problem solving, systems planning and patient care management in a high-volume work environment.
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
- Basic pager, telephone, and computer skills including the use of the internet.
- This position requires flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.
REQUIRED FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER III
Preferred:
- Experience working with pediatric patients, preferred
- Second language, Spanish.
- Current California State License of Clinical Social Work in good standing.
- Three years of experience in a healthcare setting required and hospital setting preferred.
Licenses/Certifications:
- Licensed in Clinical Social Work in the state of California/Board of Behavioral Sciences.
About UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the world's leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging and stem cells.
Pride Values
UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. We seek candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence - also known as our PRIDE values.
In addition to our PRIDE values, UCSF is committed to equity - both in how we deliver care as well as our workforce. We are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Additional information about UCSF is available here.
Join us to find a rewarding career contributing to improving healthcare worldwide.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.
Salary Information
The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.
Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.
To learn more about the benefits of working at UCSF, including total compensation, please visit: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html Minimum Required:
- Master's degree from a CSWE accredited school of Social Work.
- Experience (internship/career) in a healthcare and/or hospital setting preferred.
- Knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position, including knowledge of relevant community resources commensurate with illness, symptoms, mental status, and impairments in functioning and knowledge of the medical and psychological sequelae of course of illness and impact on social functioning (may be specific to patient population).
- Demonstrates resourcefulness, effective written and oral communication, diplomacy, and organizational and analytic skills.
- Self-directed, assertive and creative in problem solving, systems planning and patient care management in a high-volume work environment.
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
- Basic pager, telephone, and computer skills including the use of the internet.
- This position requires flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.
REQUIRED FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER III
Preferred:
- Experience working with pediatric patients, preferred
- Second language, Spanish.
- Current California State License of Clinical Social Work in good standing.
- Three years of experience in a healthcare setting required and hospital setting preferred.
Licenses/Certifications:
- Licensed in Clinical Social Work in the state of California/Board of Behavioral Sciences.
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University of California - San Francisco
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Jun 25, 2026