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

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.
• Collaborates with the patient and interdisciplinary team to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise, 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.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Social Work is required.
• NYS LMSW or LCSW or LMHC licensure is required.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in Medical, Psychiatric, or Health Care setting is preferred.

Qualifications

Recognized leader: Magnet Hospital in the Capital Region
Quality of Life: Where career opportunities and quality of life converge
Advancement: Strong orientation program, generous tuition allowance and career development