Health Social Worker LMSW – Adult Primary Care Community Clinic

Location Detail: 85 Jefferson Street Hartford (10068)

Hartford Hospital is seeking a full-time outpatient Health Social Worker to join the Adult Primary Care Program at Hartford Hospital Community Health. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference for patients and families navigating serious and chronic illnesses while working as part of a collaborative interprofessional team.

Based at 132 Jefferson Street, the program serves individuals with complex psychosocial needs. The social worker in this role provides comprehensive biopsychosocial-spiritual assessments, interventions, and treatment, while helping address critical social determinants of health such as substance use disorders, depression, fi5 nancial strain, food insecurity, housing insecurity, social connection, transportation, and advocacy.

We are looking for an engaged, proactive social worker with strong advocacy skills who values holistic patient-centered and family-focused care. The ideal candidate will thrive in a complex team environment, bring a culturally responsive approach to diverse patient populations, and help strengthen integrated support for the community we serve. Bilingual English-Spanish is preferred.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintains ethical principles and professional standards of practice in adherence to NASW Code of Ethics
• Recognizes and addresses health disparities-inequalities and injustices directed toward clients, related to access to care and provision of health services
• Develops and maintain cultural competence with an understanding of the history, traditions, values, and family systems of client groups as they relate to health care and decision-making. Display a sensitivity to and awareness of the diversity in cultural groups and integrate this knowledge into their practice
• Independently provides ongoing assessment, including gathering comprehensive information to use in developing interventions and treatment strategies.
• Independently implements intervention and treatment plans that promote client well-being and ensure a continuum of care. Planning shall be based on a comprehensive, culturally competent assessment with interdisciplinary input.
• Optimize client functioning through case management that facilitates collaboration among providers to address the client’s biomedical and psychosocial needs to better provide efficient, appropriate, and beneficial health care services to a client with multiple needs.
• Responsible to advocate for the needs and interests of patients including advocating for larger system change to improve access to care and improved delivery of services.
• Act as educators for patients, families, the community, and other professionals regarding disease prevention, impact of illness and disease progression, advocacy for benefits, health maintenance, and adherence to treatment regimens.
• Participates in interprofessional care teams, and collaborate with other professionals, volunteers, and groups in and outside of their practice setting to enhance all aspects of the patient and family system’s care.

Qualifications

Hold a master's degree from a social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.

• One to two years LMSW work experience in a healthcare setting
• Licensed Master Social Worker
• Bilingual in Spanish and English a plus
• Must be able to communicate effectively; effective written communication; clear expression, proper language to resonate with intended audience; constructing a logical argument; brevity; and making the intended point succinctly.
• Computer literacy.

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