Medical Social Worker II, Senior Care, PACE

We are so glad you are interested in joining Sutter Health! **Organization:** SSC\-Sutter Senior Care**Position Overview:** Provides biopsychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, short term counseling, advocacy, and linkage to resources and planning for transitions of care for patients and their families/significant others of all ages in any patient care setting. Provides psycho\-education and may facilitate support groups. Provides consultation on psychosocial aspects of care as a member of the interdisciplinary team; serves as a liaison to community programs and collaborates with the multidisciplinary treatment on discharge planning. May provide education to staff and other hospital departments and participates on committees as requested.**Job Description**: **EDUCATION:** Master's: Social Work **TYPICAL EXPERIENCE:** 2 years recent relevant experience. **SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:** Clinical skills in biopsychosocial assessment and clinical interventions, including crisis intervention, intervention with patient/family behavioral issues, grief counseling, supportive counseling, adjustment to illness, life review/end of life support, behavioral change therapy, motivational interviewing, short\-term family counseling, group facilitation. Collaboration skills and ability to work effectively on a team. Skills in patient and family advocacy. Knowledge of transitions of care and community resources. Knowledge of post cute levels of care and resource needs for discharge planning Knowledge of child, elder and dependent adult abuse, crimes against persons reporting requirements, and other significant regulations affecting clinical social work practice (e.g. Tarasoff, patient confidentiality). Knowledge of behavioral health and the skills to assess mental health functioning, high risk behaviors, depression, anxiety, or other psychiatric conditions impacting hospitalization or transitions of care. Kn