Healthcare Social Workers
Also called:
Social Worker, Medical Social Worker, Clinical Social Worker, Director of Social Services
What they do:
Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family care givers, providing patient education and counseling, and making referrals for other services. May also provide care and case management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.
On the job, you would:
- Advocate for clients or patients to resolve crises.
- Collaborate with other professionals to evaluate patients' medical or physical condition and to assess client needs.
- Refer patient, client, or family to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness and to provide access to services such as financial assistance, legal aid, housing, job placement or education.
Health
- therapy and counseling
- medicine and dentistry
Math and Science
- psychology
- sociology and anthropology
Business
Arts and Humanities
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
- understanding people's reactions
- looking for ways to help people
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- use rules to solve problems
- notice when problems happen
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People interested in this work like activities that include
helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Concern for Others
- Dependability
- Self Control
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Stress Tolerance
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You might use software like this on the job:
Medical software
- Automated clinical information systems
- James Frazier Associates DataStart
Word processing software
- Corel WordPerfect software
- Microsoft Word
Data base user interface and query software
- Command Systems ComServe
- Database software
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master's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$48,620
per year, on average
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