Social Worker II - MSW, Supportive and Palliative Care

ChristianaCare’s Supportive and Palliative Care program is seeking a compassionate, dependable, and detail-oriented Social Worker II-MSW who has the ability to build trusting relationships with our patient population and has a deep commitment to patient-centered outcomes to support our Wilmington and Newark locations.

The Social Worker II- MSW in the Supportive and Palliative care program assist patients and families to identify social, emotional, and environmental needs and to connect them with available resources/ services through the provision of a full spectrum of social work services. Essential functions are fundamental, core functions common to all positions of medical social work, in providing case management services to patients in a medical social services program area including chronically ill patients and/or patients undergoing cancer treatment. The Social Worker II- MSW will supporting our patients in both the inpatient side of the program as well as providing outpatient services. 

Work Schedule:

• Monday- Friday: Day Shift

• No weekends or holidays

• One (1) to Two (2) days at Wilmington, and the rest of the week in Newark.

Why You’ll Love Working at ChristianaCare

• Comprehensive, First‑Day Health Coverage:
  Comprehensive first‑day coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Enjoy low deductibles, plus $0 copays for unlimited primary care (in‑office or virtual) with ChristianaCare providers and unlimited urgent care visits at GoHealth facilities.

• Generous Paid Time Off
  Enjoy prorated days of PTO each year, including 7 major holidays, with options to roll over or cash out unused time.

• Tuition Reimbursement for Career Growth
  Advance your education with up to $5,250 per year in tuition reimbursement.

• Grow Your Family with Confidence
  We’re here to support every step of your journey to parenthood—whatever that looks like for you. From advanced fertility care through Progyny to free maternity education and support, plus up to $5,000 in adoption assistance, our benefits are designed to help you build your family with confidence and care.

• Paid Parental Leave
  Receive 12 weeks of paid parental leave to support your growing family, after one year of service.

• Retirement Planning & Financial Well-Being
  Access two retirement plans, including a 403(b) with up to a 50% match and a company-funded contribution of 3%–5% based on service. Plus, take advantage of free financial coaching, counseling, and budgeting support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides direct casework services which include emotional and social assessments, problem identification and develops a service plan to assist patient and family in dealing with medical conditions following medical recommendations and achieving maximum social and health adjustment.

• Assesses financial eligibility of families seeking financial, medical or related services.  Provides referral and follow up services to alternative sources for ineligible applicants.  Assists patients in obtaining same.

• Provides individual and family counseling to patients; obtains and coordinates public, private or community medical, social and therapy services to meet patient needs.

• Reviews patient’s case history and evaluates patients’ potential to benefit from further medical and social treatments and services.  Discusses case progress with multidisciplinary treatment team as required and prepares recommendations and referrals based on findings.

• Prepares social histories, patient progress reports, evaluations and summaries.  Prepares and maintains a variety of records and files pertaining to caseload and files.

• Provides medical social work consultations to patients, program staff, private medical professionals and/or hospital social service departments.

• Attends department and team meetings as requested.

• Represents Supportive and Palliative care at system and external meetings when requested by supervisor.

**This is the advanced level responsible for directly providing specialized case management services and for social services consultation services to patients and professional medical care staff in the public and private sector.

This level is differentiated from the lower level of this series by the greater independent judgement and the emphasis on providing consultative serv