Social Worker- Per Diem (Temple Faculty Practice)
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Temple University Health System
Philadelphia, PA, US
Summary
The social worker will assess patient psychological needs and provide direct services to ensure safe and timely discharges. Additionally, the role involves supporting pregnant women and parents while supervising student interns to address childhood trauma.
Job Description
The Social Worker II assesses the patient's psychological situation in order to make recommendations to medical personnel, and provides direct services that ensure the patient's best use of health care services including safe and timely discharges.
This grant funded position will support pregnant women and individuals parenting young children. The position will focus on increasing awareness of and response to childhood trauma and impact on parenting and child development to reduce transmission of intergenerational trauma. This role will include supervision of student interns so applicants must have 3 or more years of experience.
Education
Master's Degree Accredited School of Social Work Required
Experience
2 years experience as a Medical Social Worker Preferred
Licenses
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Preferred
PA Social Worker License Preferred
At Temple Health, more is how excellence is defined.
Temple Health is a Philadelphia-based academic health system redefining what’s possible in advanced patient care. Through clinical innovation, pioneering research, and world-class education, Temple is transforming complex medical challenges into real-world solutions—delivering more answers, more options, and more possibilities for patients.
Powered by more than 1,700 physicians, researchers and scientists across Temple University Hospital, the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple accelerates the translation of scientific discovery into practical therapies, united by a shared commitment to advancing medicine and expanding what patients can expect from their care.
Temple’s depth of expertise enables outcomes once thought impossible—more specialized expertise, more innovation, and more opportunities to expect what’s next in medicine.
It Takes Temple Health.
Founded
1892
Company size
10,001+ employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
At Temple Health, more is how excellence is defined.
Temple Health is a Philadelphia-based academic health system redefining what’s possible in advanced patient care. Through clinical innovation, pioneering research, and world-class education, Temple is transforming complex medical challenges into real-world solutions—delivering more answers, more options, and more possibilities for patients.
Powered by more than 1,700 physicians, researchers and scientists across Temple University Hospital, the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple accelerates the translation of scientific discovery into practical therapies, united by a shared commitment to advancing medicine and expanding what patients can expect from their care.
Temple’s depth of expertise enables outcomes once thought impossible—more specialized expertise, more innovation, and more opportunities to expect what’s next in medicine.
It Takes Temple Health.
Founded
1892
Company size
10,001+ employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
