Job Description Summary

The Ambulatory Palliative Care Social Worker serves as an essential member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team, providing comprehensive psychosocial support to patients with serious illness and their families. This role focuses on whole-person care, identifying and addressing social determinants of health, facilitating complex care discussions, improving care coordination, and enhancing quality of life across the disease trajectory.

Entity

Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Regular

Cost Center

CC000584 CHS - Palliative Care (Main)

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Pay Grade

Health-29

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Job Description

The Ambulatory Palliative Care Social Worker (LMSW/LISW preferred) serves as a core member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team, providing comprehensive psychosocial assessment, counseling, crisis intervention, and resource navigation for adults with serious illness and their families. This full-time role supports rising patient volumes and complexity by facilitating goals-of-care conversations, advance care planning, caregiver support, and connections to community resources such as hospice, while helping reduce avoidable ED visits, improve transitions of care, and enhance delivery of goal‑concordant, whole‑person care. The position ensures alignment with national palliative care guidelines, relieves clinicians of tasks within the social work scope, supports key strategic initiatives including transitions clinics and oncology integration, and strengthens MUSC’s ability to improve patient experience, reduce total costs of care, and address social determinants of health in the ambulatory setting.

Additional Job Description

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Master's or Doctorate degree in social work from an accredited program.
• Work Experience: 4-6 years
• Licensure: Current SC LISW license

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

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