Abstract
The purpose of this project was to examine if social workers on multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) experienced greater levels of role ambiguity and if the role ambiguity impacted job satisfaction. The study employed purposive sampling and selected twenty-six participants that met the required criterion of 1) having education and training in the field of social work (i.e. having a Bachelors/Master in Social Work) or 2) providing client services in the capacity of a social worker role. The collected data was analyzed through SPSS and did not produce significant outcomes which illustrated greater levels of role ambiguity and job dissatisfaction within the study participants. At least eighty percent of the study participants reported having a strong understanding of both the objectives and role for the social worker on the MDT. Ninety-six percent of the participants indicated their enjoyed their work. However, participants identified a need for increased team building exercises within their MDT, as well as greater definition of roles and boundaries in order to build respect and accountability for all team members. The study did not examine the impact of role ambiguity for non-social worker team members nor did it examine concurrent personal stressors that may have contributed to the study participants' level of role ambiguity or job satisfaction. Future research would benefit from increasing the scope to include the above variables as well as expanding the sample size in order to examine possibility of significant findings.