Herc-Higher Education Recruitment Consortium

A higher degree of healthcare.

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.

As the region's only Level I Trauma center, Harborview Medical Center is well known for innovations and excellence in trauma care and its centers of emphasis: Trauma, Burn, Neurosciences, AIDS/STD, Center for Advanced Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (CARER), and mentally-and medically- vulnerable populations. Harborview employees are committed to the vital role the institution plays in the immediate community, as well as the entire Northwest region.

Challenge. Collaboration. Compassion. Become part of our team, and join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER SOCIAL WORK has an outstanding opportunity for a PER DIEM SOCIAL WORKER (Day Shifts) to join the Madison Clinic to provide direct social work services to patients within assigned service areas.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Implement full range of social work clinical protocols for patients ranging from infancy through adulthood, including crisis intervention, social work assessment and discharge planning
• Prioritize patients in need of psychiatric evaluation, minors, families of patients who are in need of trauma/grief interventions
• Prioritize sexual assault victims, as well as domestic, elder, and child abuse victims
• Prioritize patients needing nursing home placements and general resources, including transportation and housing
• Prioritize patients with chemical dependency and other pyscho-social emergencies
• Prioritize patients needing other services as requested by providers
• Knowledge of legal requirements for vulnerable populations, involuntary treatment for psychiatric patients, and patients with chemical dependencies
• Knowledge of community resources relevant to the target population
• Perform related duties as assigned