Social Worker - Adult Metabolic Service (PART-TIME 0.6 FTE)
About The Position
The Social Worker will provide services to adult patients diagnosed with an inborn error of metabolism during childhood. These conditions require lifelong management and treatment with specialized diets and medications, and patients may experience either catastrophic crises or chronic illness. The role provides short- and long-term individual and family care through psychotherapy, care management, crisis intervention, and health education as an active member of an interdisciplinary medical team. Patients are followed primarily in the outpatient clinic. The role may include end-of-life and bereavement care, requiring support for patients and families through those experiences. Advocacy in response to patients’ evolving medical and developmental needs is central to the work. The position is based in person in the outpatient Metabolic clinic. The Social Worker will sometimes coordinate with adult inpatient Social Workers to support continuity during hospitalization, including assistance with metabolic-specific resources, medications, and formulas. Limited cross-coverage with the Pediatric Metabolic Social Worker is expected during PTO. This is a 0.6 FTE position with Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday workdays.
Requirements
- NYS LMSW or LCSW.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and team leadership skills.
- Excellent organizational, data collection, and documentation skills.
- Demonstrated experience providing psychosocial support and counseling to patients and families with chronic and complex illnesses, including interventions related to death and dying and bereavement counseling in health care settings.
- Willingness to learn complex medical information related to rare diseases.
- Experience with complex care coordination activities to facilitate multidisciplinary care of a high-risk metabolic population.
- Strong interest in programmatic development.
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Responsibilities
- Provide short- and long-term individual and family care, including psychotherapy, care management, crisis intervention, and health education.
- Participate as an active member of the interdisciplinary medical team.
- Follow adult patients with inborn errors of metabolism primarily in the outpatient clinic.
- Support patients and families through end-of-life care and bereavement when needed.
- Advocate for patients in keeping with their evolving medical and developmental needs.
- Liaise with adult inpatient Social Workers to support continuity of care during hospitalizations.
- Help address metabolic-specific resource needs, medications, and formulas.
- Provide limited cross-coverage for the Pediatric Metabolic Social Worker during PTO.
Benefits
- Pathway to LCSW licensure.
- Access to continuing education, professional development, and extracurricular opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
