Social Worker

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

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Job Description

We have an opportunity for a Part-time Social Worker to join our team in Salt Lake City. The Social Worker position requires understanding of common ethical and legal issues in social work practice in health care setting including: bio-psychosocial-spiritual assessment, use of the strengths perspective; client and family engagement in all aspects of social work intervention; case management/care management/care coordination/health-care navigation; discharge and transition planning; client concordance with and adherence to the plan of care; Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, including pain and symptom management, Hospice and end of life care, identification of child abuse, trauma, neglect and exploitation; crisis intervention, facilitation of benefits and resource acquisition to assist client and families, including an understanding of related policies, eligibility requirements, and financial and legal issues, advocacy with other members of the interdisciplinary team and within the health care institution to promote clients and families decision making and quality of life, client, family, interdisciplinary, and community education; family systems issues, including the impact of health care concerns illness, and disease on family relationships; life cycles, and care-giving roles and support needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountability for the achievement of optimal outcomes within th standards of practice.
• Ensures coordination of care with other Shriners Children's locations to best meet the patients needs as well as financial and clinical resources of SHC.
• Coordinates the plan of care to achieve desired outcomes and integrates the work of the health care team by coordinating resources and services necessary to accomplish agree upon goals.
• Advocates by supporting or recommending services for the protection of the patient's health, safety and rights.
• Collaborates by working with patients, families, caregivers, and the health care team locally and within the SHC system to jointly communicate.
• Demonstrates professionalism by emulating the standards of practice of care management guided by the Shriners Children's professional practice model FOCUSED.
• Arranges services among community agencies, physicians, patients, family, caregivers, and others involved in the plan of care.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's in Social Work
• SW license in state of practice
• Basic Life Support (BLS)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years Social Work experience
• Case Management Certification (CMC, ACM, or ANCC)
• Bilingual in English/Spanish


Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.