Palliative Care Social Worker (LCSW)
Company: St. Vincent's Medical Center
Location: Bridgeport
Posted on: January 11, 2026
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Job Description:
Location Detail: St Vincents Medical Center (10427) Shift
Detail: Shift 1 Palliative Care Social Worker (LCSW) – Palliative
Care Work where every moment matters. Every day, over 40,000
Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in
common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We
invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive
healthcare network. St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport has
more than 3,200 employees. It includes a 473-bed community teaching
hospital, a 76-bed inpatient psychiatric facility in Westport, a
large multispecialty provider group, and special needs services for
adults and children. St. Vincent’s is the first hospital in
Fairfield County to be integrated into the Hartford HealthCare
network and is the system’s second-largest hospital. Job Summary:
As a member of the Palliative Care Department, the Palliative Care
social workers will provide comprehensive clinical and psychosocial
assessment and intervention for patients with serious illness. The
social worker must be comfortable working in a fast-paced inpatient
and outpatient setting where the structure of the day may change
depending on patient, family and staff needs. The Palliative Care
social worker provides support around adjustment to illness,
decision making, eliciting goals of care and family coping along
with the illness trajectory. In keeping with the NASW Standards for
Social Work Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care () the
social worker will play a multidimensional role as clinician,
educator, advocate and team consultant. Responsibilities: 1.
Performs comprehensive psychosocial assessments of hospitalized
patients with serious illness. Assists the health care team to
integrate psychosocial factors into treatment plans: Ability to
analyze significant psychological, physical, emotional, social and
economic issues of patients/families and to effectively communicate
the relevance of such to other health care providers. Ability to
identify, analyze and suggest interventions for difficult
patient/family management situations. 2. Provides social work
intervention including counseling and support to assist
patients/families. Demonstrates ability to form empathic
relationships with patients/ families who have significant
emotional adjustment and coping issues. 3. Effectively addresses
quality of life and end of life issues within a culturally
competent framework to support the equitable delivery of excellence
in health care to all patients and families. 4. Assess patient/
family’s level of understanding, barriers to learning, and to
provide age-specific and culturally competent education as needed.
Able to effectively assess and discuss the psychosocial issues of
palliative care to patients/families. 5. Arranges, attends and
actively participates in patient/family conferences, in person, as
well as via available telehealth resources. 6. Demonstrates
commitment to continuous improvement by seeking ways of improving
care, effectiveness, and efficiency within the Palliative Care
Service through active participation in Huddles and meetings. 7.
Maintains patient records and other documentation in a manner
consistent with standards of clinical care, hospital, department,
third party and regulating agencies’ policies and procedures and
standards of risk management. 8. Attends Palliative Care Team
rounds, and all required departmental meetings. 9. Demonstrates
awareness of, and adherence to St Vincent’s Medical Center policies
and procedures. Maintains confidentiality and comply with
professional ethics according to professional departmental and
organizational standards and maintains current Connecticut license
to practice social work. 10. Participates in continuing education
opportunities to enhance and broaden skills relevant to job
performance; maintains documentation of continuing education and
in-service activities provided. 11. Participates in educational
programs for St Vincent’s Medical Center staff as an expert on
psychosocial issues in palliative care. 12. Works with members of
the team to provide bereavement follow up for our palliative care
patients. 13. Helps to ensure that we have appropriately documented
Serious Illness Conversations, as well as appropriately scanned- in
copies of other advance care planning documentation (such as
completed health care representative forms, MOLST forms, Living
Wills, Guardianship paperwork) into the Electronic medical record
for all patients seen by our service for palliative care
consultation. Qualifications Education : · Hold a master's degree
from a social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work
Education. Completion of Post-MSW Fellowship or Certification
Program in Palliative Care preferred. License(s) and
Certifications: · Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with valid
licensure in the State of Connecticut. · Seek Advanced Palliative
and Hospice Social Worker – Certified (APHSW-C) certification
within 2 years. Experience: · Two years of post MSW work experience
in a healthcare setting. · Work experience in the field of
palliative care, hospice care or relevant disease-specific
specialty care. We take great care of careers. With locations
around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities
for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an
organization on the cutting edge – helping to bring new
technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to
countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving
organization starts with thriving employees we provide a
competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance.
Every moment matters. And this is your moment.
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