Social Worker - Lvl II

About the Role

NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler is a certified 815-bed nursing facility with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating located on Roosevelt Island, nestled between Manhattan and Queens. Coler offers long term and subacute care, rehabilitation, and a dedicated memory care unit, comprised of 150 beds featuring an acclaimed music and memory program. The facility features a robust rehabilitation therapy program with expansive gym space for residents. Coler also offers full time physician staff, psychiatry, dental services, an onsite 8-chair dialysis den for hemodialysis, and on-site medical clinics to meet the clinical needs of its residents. From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Coler ranks #10 in Newsweek's Best Nursing Homes in New York 2026; earned a high-performance rating for Long-Term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report's Best Nursing Homes in America 2026; and received a 2024 Silver Beacon Award for Memory Care. At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Responsibilities

Under the general supervision of the Director of Social Work, with some latitude for independent judgement and decision making:

• Maintains a caseload of several units, completing all necessary documentation, providing screening, assessment, psychosocial support, and assisting with concerns, complaints and grievances.
• Provides discharge planning guidance and assistance, ensuring timely safe discharges of discharge-ready residents.
• Confers and consults with professionals in other disciplines to determine and implement a multidisciplinary approach to resident care and to develop care plans, evaluate residents' progress, develop discharge and aftercare plans and recommend alternative action or treatment.
• Participates in unit team meetings and multidisciplinary meetings to discuss resident care and discharge planning.
• Provides outreach services, makes referrals to other governmental, public and/or community agencies, prepares residents to accept services, provides direct social work services on high-risk cases and may escort residents in connection with community activities and referrals, as needed.
• Participates in departmental coverage when needed.
• Orients and educates members of other professional disciplines on social work concepts and functions.
• Assists with voter registration and voting process.
• Conducts performance improvement activities within the department related to social work practice.
• May provide supervision for social work students, if permitted by the Director of Social Work.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Director of Social Work.

Qualifications

• Valid license as an LMSW issued by the NYSED; or
• Valid license as an LCSW issued by the NYSED.

Skills

• Bilingual - Spanish preferred