Lead Oncology Clinical Social Worker - South Region - Northside Hospital Inc.

Overview:

Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.

Responsibilities:

Provides a wide variety of administrative functions related to oversight of several designated cancer programs throughout the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute. Serves as a departmental and organizational lead in area(s) of expertise and provides educational programming and staff development to oncology social workers and staff assigned to the specialty area. Provides leadership and guidance to maintain compliance in Psychosocial Oncology specialty. Serves as a Liaison to Psych-Oncology Leadership while in collaboration with Oncology Leadership. Oversees areas of compliance with documentation and clinical care delivery for regulatory standards regarding COC and TJC compliance. Responsible for direct patient care by providing psychological and social work interventions to center’s patients, families, and significant others. These services have been developed to remove any psychosocial barriers, which inhibit the treatment process. Provides support services to patients in order to meet the individual needs of the patients, to coordinate treatment, to assist the client with achieving the best possible functional level, to maximize symptom self-management and to enhancing quality of life and recovery.  Provides leadership to crisis intervention, distress screening, risk assessments and connect patients to community resources.

 

South will cover Fayetteville, Stockbridge, Lake Oconee, Milledgeville, Macon, Hawkinsville, Griffin

Qualifications:Work Hours::8a-4:30pWeekend Requirements::YesOn-Call Requirements::No