Description
UW Medicine
Mission & Vision
Values, goals and strategies to improve the health of the public
Mission
UW Medicine has a single mission: To improve the health of the public. The 30,000 members of our community advance this mission through the excellence of their work in patient care, medical education and research.
Vision
UW Medicine will provide: a care experience for patients and their families that helps them achieve their personal goals for wellness and disease management; an educational environment for health professionals, students and trainees that prepares them for leadership in their professional careers; and a research enterprise for scientists that enables them to advance medical knowledge and clinical innovations with groundbreaking discoveries.
Values
We treat people with respect and compassion.
We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
We encourage collaboration and teamwork.
We promote innovation.
We expect excellence.
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University of Washington Medical Center – Montlake
Inpatient Social Work
50% Oncology head and neck and urology services,
50% Medicine, neurology, and plastic surgery services.
This listing is open to both Carol LeMare and non-Carol LeMare students seeking placement.
Brief Description of Program: The inpatient Social Work internship is a stimulating placement with the goal of preparing practicum MSW interns for employment in the acute care setting. The MSW intern will work on fast-paced inpatient units with patients and families who are admitted to various medical services.
The intern will participate in multi-disciplinary medical rounds and should be comfortable with adjustment to illness, family conflict, grief and loss, end of life, and adult protection related issues in a critical care setting. Strong psychosocial assessment skills, excellent communication skills, and succinct written communication skills are essential.
Student Roles and Responsibilities Include: Psychosocial assessment, discharge planning, participation in care conferences, working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary treatment team including a close partnership with a Nurse Care Coordinator. Intern will provide emotional support to patients and families and will coordinate referrals to and collaborating with outside agencies.
We are seeking students with strong critical thinking skills and developed self-awareness. Students with a desire to learn more about health equity and Social Justice are welcomed. Strong candidates will have a commitment to work with patients with the unique challenges and demands of a wide range of medical diagnoses. Placement will offer training in psychosocial assessments, adjustment to illness, crisis intervention, psychosocial support, substance abuse screening, resource coordination, grief and loss, end of life, making referrals to outside home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities, and coordination of each patient’s discharge plan.
Mezzo
See full description above.
Macro
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Required Experience
Interns should bring direct service experience and/if possible, experience working collaboratively in a complex, high demand, multidisciplinary health, or behavioral health care environment.
Required/Preferred Languages
English required. Secondary language encouraged but not required.
How to Apply
To Apply: Please send an email sharing why you are interested in an inpatient medical social work placement to Malyn White malynw@uw.edu Social Work Supervisor/Practicum Coordinator along with your current resume attached. The practicum instructors will be Shelby Russell-Brown LICSW and Jane Larrivee, LICSW
