Social Worker (LMSW/LISW) - Ambulatory Palliative Care

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Summary The Ambulatory Palliative Care Social Worker serves as an essential member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team, providing comprehensive psychosocial support to patients with serious illness and their families. This role focuses on whole-person care, identifying and addressing social determinants of health, facilitating complex care discussions, improving care coordination, and enhancing quality of life across the disease trajectory. Entity Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA) Worker Type Employee Worker Sub-Type Regular Cost Center CC000584 CHS - Palliative Care (Main) Pay Rate Type Salary Pay Grade Health-29 Scheduled Weekly Hours 40 Work Shift

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The Ambulatory Palliative Care Social Worker (LMSW/LISW preferred) serves as a core member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team, providing comprehensive psychosocial assessment, counseling, crisis intervention, and resource navigation for adults with serious illness and their families. This full-time role supports rising patient volumes and complexity by facilitating goals-of-care conversations, advance care planning, caregiver support, and connections to community resources such as hospice, while helping reduce avoidable ED visits, improve transitions of care, and enhance delivery of goal‑concordant, whole‑person care. The position ensures alignment with national palliative care guidelines, relieves clinicians of tasks within the social work scope, supports key strategic initiatives including transitions clinics and oncology integration, and strengthens MUSC’s ability to improve patient experience, reduce total costs of care, and address social determinants of health in the ambulatory setting. Additional

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Minimum Requirements Education: Master's or Doctorate degree in social work from an accredited program. Work Experience: 4-6 years Licensure: Current SC LISW license If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us! The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need. Medical University of South Carolina participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/employees Thank you for wanting to be part of the Medical University of South Carolina team. Whether you want to teach the next generation of health care leaders, innovate new business models, discover the next breakthrough or provide patient care, there's a role for you that fuels your passion and takes advantage of your skills. There are career opportunities available in academics, research, hospital medicine, physician practices and support services, from patient billing to IT. As an applicant, you can search jobs for all MUSC entities as well as search by category and location. MUSC attracts more than $250 million annually in research funding, making it the biggest magnet for biomedical, extramural research dollars of all institutions of higher learning in South Carolina. The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program aims to advance clinical and translational science to increase the speed at which new treatments become available to patients. MUSC Health, the clinical enterprise, operates a 750 bed medical center, which includes a nationally recognized Children’s Hospital, the Ashley River Tower (cardiovascular, digestive disease, and surgical oncology), Hollings Cancer Center (one of fewer than 70 elite National Cancer Institute designated centers), a Level I Trauma Center and the Institute of Psychiatry. In addition, there are more than 100 outreach clinics, hospital/health system affiliations, and telehealth sites. U.S. News & World Report placed us among the top one percent of all American hospitals, with 11 specialties in the top 50. The MUSC Medical Center is also one of only three Magnet® designated hospitals in South Carolina.