Social Worker, LMSW/LCSW - Per Visit - Home Health Care - Brooklyn

NYU Langone Health • Brooklyn, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Social Worker, LMSW/LCSW - Per Visit - Home Health Care - Brooklyn. In this role, the successful candidate treats patient on an intermittent basis in their home to enable them to achieve optimal level of care. Provides psychosocial assessments and treatment as well as consultation about patients and families to assist them and the health care team in coping with the patient's hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and/or life situation, including emotional, mental, and substance abuse disorders.

Requirements

• Master's Degree Social Work.
• Current and valid New York State Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license.
• 1 - 2 years Social work or social work internship in a Health care setting or social service agency.
• Solid working knowledge of social work practice, relevant medical and/or legal issues that impact patient care, and medical center resources to access and provide for patient care needs.
• Excellent communication (both oral and written), interpersonal, assessment, counseling, multitasking, detail orientation, and organizational skills.
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office especially Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Travel to patient's homes under all weather conditions.
• Lic Master Social Worker, Lic Clinical Social Worker

Nice To Haves

• 1 - 2 years Health care setting as a medical social worker.
• Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Attends and participates in staff, committee, departmental, institutional, and other administrative meetings and continuous quality improvement efforts.
• Provides education to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment, and or life situation.
• May utilize crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, group, and family therapies.
• Provides teaching and training for students and staff from social work and other disciplines.
• Participates in multi-disciplinary health care teams and provides leadership in representing the social work perspective to and being an advocate for patients and families.
• Maintains records and statistics according to departmental and institutional guidelines and standards.
• Travels to patients homes under all weather conditions to provide treatment.
• Provides psycho-social assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
• Formulates, develops, and implements a plan utilizing appropriate social work interventions.
• Documents findings, plan, and actions taken according to departmental and institutional guidelines and standards.
• Provides education regarding advanced directives; explores Goals of Care, as well ad educates/refers to Palliative Care/Hospice if/when indicated and facilitates referrals to Hospice when indicated.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• financial security benefits
• generous time-off program
• employee resources groups for peer support
• holistic employee wellness program (physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care)

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level