Social Worker

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Job Location (Full Address):

601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14642

Opening:

Worker Subtype:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Department:

500136 Psychiatry SMH Social Work

Work Shift:

UR - Day (United States of America)

Range:

UR URCE 211

Compensation Range:

$63,003.00 - $80,600.00

The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job's compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.

Responsibilities:

GENERAL PURPOSE:
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.

The practice team is focused on promotion of healthy living and wellness as well as personal care for acute and chronic conditions. In this setting, all team members are central to the mission of providing the highest quality of care and safety as well as meaningful partnership with patients.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• 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.  This may be in the following modalities; individual, family and/or group therapy. 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 implemen