Career Center

You. 

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as an Oncology Social Worker

Your compassion is tangible: patients feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.

Youâ™re equally comfortable with serving as a patient liaison as well as a functioning as a clinical resource to patients, physicians, and the cancer program through all phases of cancer trajectory.

Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us. 

Lutheran Medical Center is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 249-bed community-based hospital provides comprehensive, specialty care to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Dating back to 1905, we are proud of the rich history and inspiring mission our hospital has embodied for over 110 years. 

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning. 

We. 

Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity. 

Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn. 

Your Day.

As an Oncology Social Worker you need to know how to:

• Ensures that patients receive timely and unimpeded access to the most appropriate, high quality, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare by working in a collaborative, supportive relation with the RN Case Manager, patient, family/significant other, and entire healthcare team. The CM SW serves as an advocate to guide and refer the patient and family/significant other toward health promotion, illness prevention and patient centered goals. 

• Provides education to patient/family throughout stay to assist in adjustment to the illness and hospitalization to facilitate the development and acceptance of the discharge plans.


• Performs initial and ongoing assessments of patientâ™s physical/function, emotional, social, spiritual, and financial needs of identified patients and implements crisis intervention and referral


• Serves as a resource to healthcare team throughout healthcare system in promoting evidence based medicine and provide education regarding healthcare and social resource systems to empower patient/family to access resources independently.

• Confers with physician regarding psychosocial issues that may affect healthcare management.


• Provides education and information to patients/families regarding Advance Care Planning.  Assists patients/families in developing and completing Advance Care Plan.


• Provides information to patients/families regarding conservator ship and guardianship (throughout age-span), or facilitates presence of appropriate documentation in the medical record.

• Continuously assess, develop, and implement discharge patient/family needs and work with appropriate healthcare provider to procure necessary services

Your Experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require: 

• Masterâ™s Degree in Social Work or related field


• Minimum of one year previous healthcare experience or minimum of three years in another setting


• Current LCSW Certification


• Competent in medical terminology or successful completion of course at next offering


• Ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically within a multi-functional team

Your Next Move.