A health services network in New York City is actively seeking a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) to join their growing Emergency Room team. In this role, the Social Worker (LMSW) will be responsible for ensuring all high-risk patients are provided with the appropriate social services, as needed.
About the Opportunity:
- Schedule: Full time
- Hours: 1pm to 9pm
- Setting: Emergency Department
Responsibilities:
- Interviews the patients/family to obtain relevant psychosocial information for all patients requiring social work intervention
- Provides psychosocial assessments and discharge planning services as indicated
- Provides concrete services, education, and linkage of patients to appropriate hospital
- Provides motivational counseling, interventions and patient referrals as indicated
- Provides clinical information to HMO’s for authorizationsWorks with ACS, HMO’s Foster Care Agencies, APS Shelter system and other social service agencies on behalf of patient
- Back up to Inpatient Units as needed
- When indicated and approved by Administrator and Supervisor, provide outreach to family via home visits with assigned coworker
- Provides short term counseling and crisis intervention to all victims of domestic violence child abuse, elder abuse and sexual assault
- Provide bereavement counseling to patients/families as appropriate
- Fulfills departmental requirements for medical record documentation
- Completes monthly statistics and other reports
- Maintains records on patient care planning rounds as appropriate
Qualifications:
- 1+ year of Social Work experience in Adult, Child Welfare, and/or Victim Services
- Master’s Degree in Social Work
- An active NYS Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) licensure
- Social Work experience in a Hospital setting
- Discharge Planning experience
- Experience working with EPIC EMR or AllScript EMR
Desired Skills:
- Working knowledge of ICARE Values
