Social Worker - Lvl Ii

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan is the community hospital of choice for residents of East Harlem, northern Manhattan, and neighboring communities. The hospital provides culturally-sensitive care in a welcoming and hospitable setting, emphasizing primary care medicine and utilizing the latest advances in medical science. Metropolitan delivers high quality health services with compassion, dignity, and respect to all, without exception. Since its founding in 1875, the hospital has been affiliated with New York Medical College, representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States. Metropolitan is a part of the NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the country.

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.

9:00 A.M – 5:00 P.M

• Conducts interviews with patients and/or family members(s)/significant others(s) to determine continuing care needs.
• Completes Social Work Comprehensive Assessment for all patients referred or in need of social services in accordance with departmental high/moderate risk criteria policy.
• Completes all appropriate social work documentation within designated time frames.
• Provides psychosocial information for patients transferring to other units to ensure continuity of care.
• Provides supportive counseling, crisis intervention, and grief counseling to patients and their families/significant others as appropriate.
• Assists patients with adjustment to treatment, including problems of depression, anxiety, denial and/or anger, noncompliance with medical regimen.
• Devises/implements a social work treatment/continuing care plan involving the patient, family/significant other and the interdisciplinary team and documents on the patient's medical record in accordance to the departmental policy.
• Provides information, referral and advocacy to community agencies.
• Advocates and serves as a liaison for patients with community agencies.
• Coordinates individual interdisciplinary case conference as needed.
• Provides task supervision to caseworkers when designed.
• Provides direct/task supervision lo social work students when designated.
• Leads education and support groups for patients and/or families/significant others as appropriate.
• Identifies, evaluates and designs proper safety plans for victims of crimes/abuse, i.e: child abuse, elder abuse, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault.
• Maintains and completes statistics of case activities as outlined in the departmental policy.
• Monitors his/her performance by reviewing medical records for appropriate documentation.
• Attends individual, unit, management, departmental and intra/inter hospital meetings as mandated by the supervisor and/or department director.
• Assists/participates in presentations, training and in-services as required.
• Participates in the department's cross-training program.
• Coordinates 2111d executes discharge plans for hospital patients.

For Assignment to Level II
1. Valid license as an LMSW issued by the NYSED; or
2. Valid license as an LCSW issued by the NYSED.