Temporary Social Worker

Position Summary

At Stony Brook Medicine, our Social Workers are valuable members of our team, who provide empathic care to our patients, their families and visitors, with the highest degree of integrity and respect. Social Workers apply the principles and practices of their profession to provide integrated social casework, including direct counseling, therapy, advocacy, and other services to individuals, families and groups in a variety of settings.

Duties

• Psycho-social assessment of selected cases.
• Effectuate discharge planning.
• Attend rounds and coordinate with medical team.
• Work with community agencies in regards to patient post discharge needs.
• Work with SB Outpatient division for improved continuum of care.
• Compliance with documentation of Social Work intervention.
• Coordinate and give review to insurance companies as needed; contact insurance companies for authorizations.
• Aid patients and families with advanced directives.
• Supervise professional social work students.
• Participate in performance improvement activities including program development, data collection and analysis on palliative care cases.
• Cross coverage on units.
• Aid patients and families with advanced directives and MOLST.
• Participate in performance improvement activities including program development, data collection, and analysis on palliative care cases.

Qualifications

• MSW from an accredited Social Work Education School.
• NYS License within one year of hire.
• Experience in medical health care setting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong psychosocial assessment skill set.
• Understanding of discharge planning and long length of stay barriers and systems.
• Working knowledge of Long Island and Metropolitan NY Community resources.
• Passion for patient first, patient advocacy and service excellence.
• Computer literate and understanding of data analysis.
• Understanding of community systems; demonstrates ability for project management and action planning; demonstrates team work and team leader focus; understanding of data collection and statistics.
• Ability to cover multiple patient populations.