Licensed Master Social Worker - Outpatient
About The Position
This position is for a full-time Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in a fast-paced bariatric office setting. The role involves providing advanced clinical social work services as part of an inter-disciplinary team, working with patients and their families to cope with hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and life situations, including emotional, mental, and substance abuse disorders. The social worker will conduct thorough assessments, care planning, case management, and coordinate community resources. The work utilizes motivational interviewing, assessment, and multi-modality psychotherapeutic interventions to positively impact patients' physical, cognitive, and emotional functioning. This role requires high-level critical and creative problem-solving and advanced communication skills, with a significant degree of autonomy.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Social Work is required.
- NYS LMSW or LCSW licensure is required.
Nice To Haves
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in Medical, Psychiatric, or Health Care setting is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide specialized skills and therapeutic education for patients and support system.
- Identify barriers which impact optimal patient functioning.
- Ensure patients receive appropriate resources in most appropriate setting.
- Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary care team and takes the lead on managing complex cases, providing education, mentoring, modeling, and resources as needed.
- Acts as patient advocate, promotes autonomy and champions patient’s right to self-determination, incorporating patient’s wishes regarding care and voices patient interest to the hospital.
- In collaboration with the patient and interdisciplinary team, develops, implements, evaluates and revises, as necessary, a plan for hospital and post-hospitalization care, including referrals to other disciplines (psychiatry, addiction medicine, etc.) healthcare and community organizations based on needs assessment.
- Identifies areas for dynamic intervention.
- Utilizes brief multi-modality psychotherapeutic interventions in accordance with the treatment plan.
- Participates constructively in Patient Rounds, Unit Care Conferences, Complex Care Committee, and other patient centered teams as necessary.
- Serves as advanced clinical consultant and educator to Patient focused Care Teams
- Attends and documents participation in inter-disciplinary teams, including self-directed work teams, hospital and departmental staff meetings, patient care meetings, and Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement activities.
- Actively participates in Hospital, Organizational, and community-based initiatives related to enhancing patient care.
Benefits
- generous tuition allowance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
