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Job Title: Senior Social Worker - Social Work - Mount Sinai Morningside - Full Time - Day

• To perform the following tasks and clinical functions in an efficient and cost-effective manner as assigned in order to help patients/families/significant others respond to their treatment needs; psychosocial screening and assessment, discharge planning, linkage to community resources, crisis intervention, patient/family counseling and psycho education, timely documentation, utilization management care plans/case management, and advocacy.

Qualifications

• Five years post Masters experience in the social service and/or health care field, preferably in a medical setting.

• Minimum of one year supervisory experience of agency trained social work staff or social work interns.

Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSSL

SEIU 1199 at Mount Sinai St. Luke's, BKO - Social Work - STL, Mount Sinai St. Luke's

Responsibilities

• Perform and exceed in all duties of a social worker.

• Manage a clinically complex caseload.

• Provides clinical supervision to staff and/or MSW interns that meets learning needs and facilitates advanced licensure.

• Participate in special department/hospital projects.

• Assess and evaluate patients/families social, psychosocial and environmental situations to determine patient needs.

• Provide direct service to patients and families, selecting treatment modality/casework technique compatible with assessment and identified goals.

• Monitor, coordinate, manage activities for high risk psychosocial patients to ensure implementation of multiple services.

• Document in the medical record in accordance with standards set by the Department of Social Work and/or regulatory agencies.

• Provides education related to impact of psychosocial issues on patient/families to multidisciplinary providers.

• Identify, select, access and make referrals to appropriate community resources.

• Provide psycho-education for patients and families.

• Advocate for patients and families by interpreting their needs to and eliciting cooperation from other disciplines and community agencies.

• Assess situation and re-negotiate contract with patient/family as needed.

• Participate in interdisciplinary rounds, case conference, staff meetings.

• Set appropriate priorities and responds to follow-up situations in an acceptable time period.

• Develop options and treatment plans in a timely manner.

• Ability to make decisions, solve clinical problems and manage resources.

• Identify problems and provide leadership in resolution.

• Knowledge of child protection policies and domestic violence protocols.

• Function independently or with minimal supervision addressing problems with effective performance and new and innovative approaches.

• Maintain professional skills through attendance at education activities.

• May assume responsibility for preparing material for conferences, rounds and staff develop programs.

• May be involved in program planning and implementation.

• Represent the departments philosophy and policy to other departments and community agents.

About Us

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Compensation Statement

Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $52.7154 - $57.6392 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.