Social Worker

The social worker in this position functions as primary therapist, providing services to patients enrolled in care at UR primary care site team at the Complex Care Center, targeting adults with pediatric onset conditions, including but not limited to intellectual and developmental disabilities, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, spina bifida, metabolic disorders, congenital heart disease, childhood cancers, myotonic dystrophy, and cerebral palsy. The social worker conducts psychosocial assessment, treatment and discharge planning of patients assigned to his/her caseload. The social worker is responsible for screening, psychosocial assessment, psychiatric diagnosis and brief, evidence-based treatment for a primary care practice. In this role, helps to identify high risk patients with behavioral health and medical comorbidities and contributes to a unified person-centered, trauma-informed treatment plan with the goal of improving the patient's overall health and well-being. In addition, facilitates access to specialty psychiatric and substance use care. The position will require formal and informal collaboration with primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, care managers, and other clinicians.