Oncology Clinical Social Worker
Oncology Clinical Social Worker
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Job Description
Department Overview
The Oncology Clinical Social Worker (OCSW) is a mental/behavioral health clinician who operates as a core member of a multidisciplinary oncology team. The OCSW offers social work intervention through direct treatment and/or coordination of needed services to patients and/or their families experiencing psychosocial adjustment difficulties associated with illness injury disability and related hospitalization. Interventions mayinclude: biopsychosocial assessment brief supportive counseling care coordination information/resource referrals crisis intervention and patient/support person(s) advocacy. The primary goal of the intervention is toassist patients in achieving maximum physical and psychosocial functioning using evidence based interventions targeted at improving health and wellbeing for a variety of patients. The OCSW also provides
mental health support for patients support person(s) as they navigate adjustment to the patients illness advanced care planning palliative care needs and other difficult decisions related to cancer diagnosis/care also providing grief/bereavement support when appropriate.
The OCSW will participate in department and clinical team meetings. The OCSW will practice in accordancewith performance standards ethical principles and NASW/AOSW core values with a commitment to service excellence. The OCSW may participate in or provide professional education programs within the agency and community may provide supervision to social work interns and may provide social work consultation to community agencies.
Patient and Family Services Department (PFS) is committed to providing an open and equitable recruitment process with the goal of recognizing diverse work and lived experience that will contribute to responsive patientcentered care and effective patient advocacy within the institution. PFS strives for a department that reflects the diversity of the community served by the Knight Cancer Institute and welcomes applications from candidates who will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives.
Function/Duties of Position
Psychosocial Assessment:
- Conducts psychosocial evaluations of patients/support person(s) to identify needs and areas of support including but not limited to: adjustment to cancer diagnosis care coordination mental health status barriers to treatment process substance use child or elderabuse/neglect intimate partner violence concerns financial concerns and resource needs.
- The OCSW may participate in treatment team meetings or care conferences as the behavioral health clinician to support treatmentplanning.
Patient Services:
- Refers patient/support person(s) to resources within and outside of the hospital for assistance (i.e. financial housing transportation insuranceprescription assistance etc.)
- Acts as an advocate for patients within the medical setting and the community
- Maintains knowledge of community resources for oncology patients
- May interact with the oncology social work specialist for assistance.
Supportive Counseling:
- Provides brief shortterm evidencebased clinical behavioral health interventions to patients and/or their support person(s) in health caresettings.
- Works to coordinate transition to longterm counseling support in the community for patients requiring longterm followup.
- Provides counseling to reinforce patients strengths and assist them in coping with a cancer diagnosis.
- Counsels patients to assist them in decisions related to treatment options and educates patients regarding anticipated social or emotional impacts oftreatment.
- May participate in urgent situations by providing crisis intervention services to patients and/or their support person(s).
- May also conduct group work including support group facilitation to patients caregivers and/or staff.
Documentation:
- Maintains accurate and timely documentation of patient care activities in an efficient manner per department policies and workflows to ensurecontinuity of care.
Other Duties as Assigned
Required Qualifications
A Masters Social Work (MSW) required.
Effective January 1 2011 Certificate of Clinical Social Work Associate (CSWA) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) required for employees who practice clinical social work.
Preferred Qualifications
- Health care experience preferred.
- 2 years Oncology Social Work Experience
- Experience as a behavioral health clinician in a healthcare setting
- Bilingual medical terminology proficiency.
- Bicultural
- Experience working with diverse identity populations
- Licensed in Washington
Additional Details
Frequent interruptions in an environment of frequent change and fluctuations.
May be exposed to body fluids tissue possible radiation exposure and infectious processes
Subject to computer work for several hours as needed
Able to utilize office equipment within work area including computer smartphone and pager inclinic and remote.
Comfortable working in a shared office environment.
Posted: 5/13/2025 5:06pm
All are welcome
Employment Type
Full-Time
