Social Worker Job at University of Rochester (Rochester)

Job Description

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.

Job Responsibility

Serves as primary therapist and member of the primary care team for patients assigned to their caseload
Performs psychosocial assessments of patients and their families
Provides behavioral health treatment and education to patient and families
Performs diagnostic and functional evaluations and makes recommendations to the primary care provider concerning the patient’s treatment plan and goals
Initiates follow up to ascertain how patients are doing and to determine if changes in the treatment approach are indicated
Creates, implements, and monitors behavioral health treatment plans
Collaborates with appropriate collateral contacts
Provides linkages to community resources
Assists in tracking patients’ engagement and adherence treatment plans, reported outcomes tools, and status after referral to specialty mental health
Offers longitudinal interventions with patients including functional and strength-based assessment and diagnosis
psychoeducation for patients and their support systems
medication adherence
motivational interviewing
and brief problem solving interventions aimed at promoting self-efficacy, enhanced decision making, and behavior change
Documents interventions in the patient’s chart in compliance with Departmental and Hospital policy
Provides Crisis Intervention during working hours for assigned and/or referred patients of the practice
Supports efforts for behavioral health screening for depression, anxiety and substance use
Recommends and facilitates referrals to specialty clinic, as appropriate
Assists in tracking and monitoring, including tracking patient’s adherence to treatment plans, reported outcomes tools, and status after referral to specialty mental health
Attends Social Work Division, Social Work in Psychiatry and Program staff meetings
Participates in activities of the Social Work and Psychiatry Division Psychiatry Division including, but not limited to, ensuring policies and procedures are implemented with regard to professional practice, discharge planning and patient care, timely completion of time reporting and other Hospital or Division forms
Hospital and Division mandatory in-service training programs and UHS reviews
Participates in routine committee process of the Social Work Division, and facilitates Division and Hospital quality assurance and staff development activities
Subscribes to the departmental goal of creating a culturally competent environment by treating patient, families, trainees, and co-workers in a sensitive manner with appropriate attention to cultural differences
Participates in available cultural competency events and training appropriate to job duties
Participate in professional development as directed by specialty programs (e.g. CBT for pain management, coping with chronic diseases, trauma-informed care, EMDR, etc.) and in the integrated behavioral health primary care model
Provides back up mental health service coverage to other integrated therapists as needed and appropriate

Requirements

Master’s degree from an accredited school of social work (CSWE) required
Prior experience in providing individual, family or group therapy in an acute clinical setting required
Licensure as a social worker, as defined by the State Board for Social Work, State Education department, Division of Professional Licensing Services is required
Knowledge about and ability to provide behavioral health assessments/evaluations and evidenced based interventions preferred
Commitment to and routine demonstration of biopsychosocial approach to care of individuals and families preferred
Dedication to delivering a team-based integrated model of care preferred
Demonstrates cultural humility and anti-racism values and works toward ensuring all patients feel welcome preferred
Licensure as LCSW-R is preferred
Multi-lingual, Bi-lingual, or Spanish speaking desired

Nice to have

Multi-lingual, Bi-lingual, or Spanish speaking desired
Knowledge about and ability to provide behavioral health assessments/evaluations and evidenced based interventions
Commitment to and routine demonstration of biopsychosocial approach to care of individuals and families
Dedication to delivering a team-based integrated model of care
Demonstrates cultural humility and anti-racism values and works toward ensuring all patients feel welcome
Licensure as LCSW-R

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