Required:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work.
• Active Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California.
• Experience and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient medical environments with some exposure to oncology.
• Knowledge of psychosocial and other rehabilitation related problems that arise in individuals with cancer at all phases of their disease and treatments.
• Knowledge of the most common cancers (e.g. breast, colon, prostate, lung and gynecologic) and their treatments.
• Knowledge of psychosocial distress screening instruments. Ability to formulate assessments of psychosocial needs of individuals with cancer. 
• Skills and knowledge to deliver psychosocial interventions in a medical setting.
• Skills required to facilitate individual, group and family therapy interventions.
• Ability to identify referral sources and to provide referrals for economic, psychosocial and home health care programs.
• Knowledge and ability to function as a team member, working with other staff social workers and clinicians to develop patient groups, lectures and other programs.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities including traveling to multiple location to see patients, under various conditions, without a specific office.
• Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with patients and medical staff including physicians and nurses to function as a team member.
• Ability to provide clinical knowledge to less experienced clinicians including developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field instructor accreditation.

Preferred:

• Spanish Speaker 
• Experience working as a liaison with inpatient/outpatient units and community agencies.
• Knowledge of bereavement process.
• Familiarity with CareConnect or other EPIC-based electronic medical record software.