Social Worker

The social worker therapist is an integral and embedded member of the UR primary care site team at Manhattan Square Family Medicine, committed to providing comprehensive, family-centered care that is grounded in compassion. The embedded social worker functions as a primary therapist provides screening, psychosocial assessment, psychiatric diagnosis and brief, evidence-based treatment for a primary care practice. In this role, the social worker also helps to identify high-risk patients with behavioral health needs, and medical comorbidities. The social work therapist contributes to a unified treatment plan with the goal of improving the patient’s overall health and well-being, as well as facilitates access to specialty psychiatric and substance use care, as appropriate or needed. The position will require formal and informal collaboration with primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, care managers, and other clinicians and may interface wide variety of diagnoses including but not limited to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and substance abuse.