The Palliative Care Services Psychotherapist/Social Worker works as a core member of an interdisciplinary consulting team to support patients and families dealing with serious illness. The PCSP is responsible for providing a full range of social work services including psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, therapeutic interventions, crisis intervention, resource referral, short term counseling, grief support, advance care planning, facilitation of family meetings, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team.

• Monday to Friday; full-time hours
• No call
• Sign-on bonus of $10,000 is available
• LICSW certification required
• Quality incentives available
• Compensation is between $73,029 and $96,574 per year
• The compensation amounts listed may include productivity or quality/service incentives, call pay, extra shift incentives, as applicable to the position. In addition, providers may have CME benefits available to them.
• Comprehensive benefits include health, vision, dental and retirement

Where You’ll Work

Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill campus in the historic Central District houses James Tower, Seattle's first hospital, established in 1877 by the Sisters of Providence. Today, the campus is known as one of the most modern and technologically advanced medical facilities in the region. After a $100 million, state-of-the-art construction and renovation, the campus now includes neurosurgery and cardiovascular surgery operating rooms and interventional suites that are among the most advanced in the country.

Where You’ll Live

Seattle is the Pacific Northwest’s largest urban center, with a metro population of 3.25 million, and is home to world-class arts and entertainment, a robust economy and an outstanding school system. The city hugs Puget Sound and offers magnificent mountain views to the north, east and south. Home to the world’s biggest tech giants, Seattle offers some of the highest minimum wages in the country, along with a notable music and arts scene, outdoor lifestyle and amazing coffee.

Who You’ll Work For

Swedish is a comprehensive health network with a long history of excellence. The Seattle-based system operates five hospitals with more than 1,500 beds, and more than 115 primary and specialty care clinics. Part of the Providence family, Swedish is world-renowned for its innovative and ground-breaking diagnoses, treatments and medical research at its five award-winning institutes: cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular, neuroscience and orthopedic. Its mission is to improve the health and well-being of each person it serves.

Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran

Job ID Number: 26392