Social Worker II - Med​/Surg

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

• 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 a range of social work services responsive to identified problems (e.g., help with psychosocial functioning, 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 and 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.

The University of Iowa Healthcare is recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States and is Iowa’s only comprehensive academic medical center and regional referral center. Over 12,000 employees, students and volunteers work together to provide safe, quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Our mission is:
Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.

Percent of Time: 100%

Schedule: Shifts ranging Monday‑Friday, 8‑hour shifts between 8:00 AM and 4:30 PM, occasional evenings, weekend and holiday rotation.

• 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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• Bachelor’s degree with a major concentration in Social Work or a related human services field
• 6 months–1 year of clinical social work experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Master’s degree with a major concentration in social work
• A license to practice social work in Iowa
• Social work experience in a health care setting with the appropriate patient population and their families
• Experience with identifying and navigating financial resources, including insurance coverage options, changes related to the federal and state health programs and the disability process
• Experience working with community resources, home health care, nursing facilities and other options…