Social Worker - Palliative Care - Mineola
About The Position
NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is seeking an Inpatient Palliative Care Social Worker to join an interdisciplinary team caring for hospitalized patients with serious illness and their families. The social worker serves as a behavioral health expert, providing psychosocial assessment, counseling, and support. The role calls for skilled clinical practice in complex environments, interdisciplinary partnership, and a commitment to palliative care education and mentorship. The position reports to the Chief of the Division of Palliative Medicine and the Senior Administrative Manager of NYU Palliative Medicine Associates. The social worker provides inpatient palliative consultation and specialty-level psychosocial support, including cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, anticipatory guidance, and legacy work. The position also contributes to pain and symptom management, care coordination between inpatient and outpatient settings, education across disciplines, strategic development of palliative social work, and institutional committees and programs such as the Bioethics Committee.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Social Work.
- Current, valid New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) license.
- Completion of a postgraduate Social Work Fellowship.
- Completion of a certificate program in Palliative Care within the first two years of employment.
- 1–2 years of social work experience in a healthcare setting or social service agency, including clinical social work experience.
- Strong working knowledge of clinical social work practice, relevant medical and/or legal issues affecting patient care, and medical center resources for patient care needs.
- Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, assessment, counseling, multitasking, detail-orientation, and organizational skills.
- Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
Nice To Haves
- ACHP-SW certification.
- 1–2 years of experience in palliative medicine or hospice care, unless postgraduate fellowship trained.
Responsibilities
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Provide inpatient palliative consultation and specialty-level palliative social work support to the hospital.
- Use cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, anticipatory guidance, and legacy work to mitigate suffering and support patients' and families' adjustment to serious illness.
- Conduct multidimensional assessments of pain and other symptoms and provide expertise in non-pharmacological interventions for symptoms related to advanced illness.
- Explore the meaning of symptoms, spiritual aspects, cultural variables, hopelessness, helplessness, mood, and caregiver distress; provide psychoeducation and teach relaxation, reframing, and imagery.
- Coordinate care across practice settings, provide continuity between hospital and outpatient palliative services, collaborate with case management, liaise with hospice representatives, and provide anticipatory guidance about illness progression.
- Provide education across disciplines and to medical students, house staff, fellows, nursing, social work, attending physicians, palliative care social work interns, and the wider community.
- Organize and direct the palliative service interdisciplinary team, develop a division-wide palliative social work strategic plan, and build the organization's palliative care social work presence.
- Provide specialty-level palliative social work expertise to institutional committees and programs, including the Bioethics Committee.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness package.
- Financial security benefits.
- Generous time-off program.
- Employee resource groups for peer support.
- Holistic employee wellness program covering physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
