Social Worker LMSW – Complex Care - St. Peter's Hospital

Trinity Health•Albany, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in Complex Care at St. Peter's Hospital. The role involves leading a behavioral response team and partnering with key stakeholders within the hospital system to ensure patients in need of additional support during their medical treatment receive it, with a focus on progression of care and workplace violence reduction using a patient-centered approach. The LMSW provides advanced clinical social work services as a member of an inter-disciplinary team, engaging with patients and family members to cope with hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and/or life situations, including emotional, mental, and substance abuse disorders. Key responsibilities include thorough assessments, care planning, case management, and community resource coordination. The role utilizes motivational interviewing, assessment, and multi-modality psychotherapeutic interventions to positively affect the physical, cognitive, and emotional functioning of patients and their families. This position requires high-level critical and creative problem-solving and advanced communication skills, performed under mainly autonomous conditions.

Requirements

Master's degree in Social Work is required.
NYS LMSW or LCSW or LMHC 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.