Social Worker

at  AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Master’s degree
• Up to 1 Year of Position-Related Experience

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:

• 1 to 3 Years of Position-Related Experience

Social work practice consists of professionally responsible intervention to:

• Enhance the development, problem-solving, and coping capacities of people
• Promote the effective and humane operation of systems that provide resources and services to people
• Link people with systems that provide them with resources, services, and opportunities
• Contribute to the development and improvement of social policy, generally and specifically health and welfare policy in the primary care setting and community.
• The focus of the social work assignment and intervention is on patients referred by a primary care provider or clinical staff due to at risk status or for unmet psychosocial needs.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for patient psychosocial and behavioral health needs, and social work practice for Shawnee Mission Physicians Group.