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The social worker, in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team, provides social work clinical services, including transfer management, discharge planning, to individuals and families of all ages who come to the Emergency Department for care. The social worker also provides consultation to inpatient staff regarding psychosocial issues and community resources if the assigned social worker is unavailable.
Job Responsibility:
Provides social work clinical services, including transfer management, discharge planning, to individuals and families of all ages in the Emergency Department
Provides consultation to inpatient staff regarding psychosocial issues and community resources
Provides social work interventions including risk screening, psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, supportive counseling, grief and bereavement counseling
Serves as a resource consultant and facilitates referrals
Coordinates discharge planning for patients at psychosocial risk
Handles risk management issues
Documents social work activity in the electronic medical record
Provides social work coverage during absence of co-workers, including shift modification
Completes required in-service training and professional development
Completes required Employee Health appointments
Attends Social Work Division meetings
Supervises social work students
Orients and provides ongoing peer support to new social work staff
Requirements:
MSW from an accredited social work graduate program
Must obtain New York State license within eighteen months of employment
Prior clinical experience in a medical setting preferred
Supervisory experience preferred
Familiar with medical social work and community resources preferred
Nice to have:
Prior clinical experience in a medical setting
Supervisory experience
Familiar with medical social work and community resources