Social Worker

Saint Barnabas Medical Center • New York, NY

9d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for providing social work and discharge planning services within a hospital setting. The Social Worker will interview patients and families to gather psychosocial information, assess patient needs related to safety and discharge, and develop appropriate treatment and discharge plans. The position involves direct patient care, community resource advocacy, maintaining professional rapport with community agencies, and documenting all activities in the patient's medical chart and Allscripts. The role also requires engaging with patients and families respectfully, maintaining confidentiality, counseling on lifestyle changes and coping patterns, and speaking in an age-appropriate manner. The Social Worker will participate in multidisciplinary rounds, department meetings, and provide weekend coverage in various departments, including the Pediatric Emergency Department.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work.
• New York State Certification (LMSW).
• Two (2) years’ experience in a hospital setting, and related to the department to which the worker will be assigned.
• Participation in continuing education activities is expected.

Responsibilities

• Promotes a safe, cooperative and professional health care environment to ensure optimum patient care.
• Adheres to all hospital policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
• Makes Customer Services a priority, treating customers (patients, visitors and co-workers) in a professional manner exercising courtesy and tact.
• Effectively communicates with patients and others about SBH services in their area(s) of expertise or responsibility and ensure that concerns, questions or issues reach the right person(s) in SBH in a timely fashion.
• Interviews patient and/or family to obtain psychosocial information and assess the patient’s functioning relative to safety and/or discharge planning needs.
• Formulates an assessment and treatment/discharge plan that will highlight a clinically realistic, and sensitive understanding of the patient’s needs.
• Participates in scheduled multidisciplinary rounds/meetings.
• Provides direct social work/discharge planning services including community resource advocacy as well as keep ongoing professional rapport with community agencies as needed.
• Documents all work activity in the patient’s medical chart and Allscripts in accordance with departmental and regulatory guidelines.
• Engages with patient and/or family members with respect to cultural differences and sensitivity to individuality.
• Demonstrates consistent attention towards patient confidentiality.
• Counsels patients, families, and significant others in the areas of expectation regarding life style changes and functional coping patterns.
• Completes and turns in monthly statistics timely.
• Attends all scheduled Social Work/Discharge Planning Department meetings.
• Speaks to patients, families and significant others with age appropriate conversation and demeanor.
• Provides social work rotating weekend coverage in Pediatric Emergency Department, Nursery, Labor and Delivery and other areas, as necessary.
• Attends scheduled meetings, participates in White Board Rounds, discharge planning meetings and patient conferences, etc. as needed.
• Provides supporting documentation of activities in AllScripts and Weekend Log.
• Attends scheduled supervision and obtains consultation when needed.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level