Social Worker - Social Services - MSQ - Full Time - Day

Job Title: Social Worker - Social Services - MSQ - Full Time - Day

 

• The social worker will be responsible for providing psychosocial services with an emphasis on helping patients and families cope with the crisis of critical illness. 
• There is also a strong emphasis on complex discharge planning. 
• The social worker will have the opportunity to collaborate as a member of the team, which requires strong interdisciplinary skills, as well as knowledge of crisis, and family systems. Coverage will include other med/surg floors.

• Engage and comprehensively assess patients and families.
• Formulate individualized plan for intervention and treatment.
• Implement intervention and treatment plan.
• Create, with patient and/or family, safe, appropriate, proactive discharge/community plans.
• Implement, on a timely basis, with indicated advocacy, discharge/community plans.
• Enhance service delivery to patients/families through programmatic assessment and implementation.
• Provide services in accordance with professional standards of practice.
• Maintain productivity and documentation standards.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all colleagues, thereby enhancing the teams functioning.
• Take initiative in furthering professional competency and development.

• Masters Degree in Social Work.
• Knowledge of social work services theories and techniques.
• Level of knowledge of social work process and community resources and agencies in relation to health, illness and disability, generally acquired through six months to one year related experience in a medical or health care setting.
• Name: LMSW    Issuing Agency: Department of Health/Office of Professions

 

Collective bargaining unit: SEIU Local 144-MSQ-NonRN

 

SEIU Local 144 at Mount Sinai Queens, 120 - Social Services - MSQ, Mount Sinai Queens

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.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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“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