Associate Social Worker - Pediatrics Department

100 Albany Med Health System; United States; Presencial; USD 59.000 - 89.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Excellent health care coverage

Wellbeing programs

Albany Medical Center opportunities

Descripción de la vacante

Albany Med Health System is seeking an Associate Social Worker in General Pediatrics in Albany, NY. The role focuses on psychosocial assessment, supportive counseling, and resource coordination to help families access care and promote child wellness.

The position requires a Bachelor's in Social Work or related field, with a preference for 1 year in pediatric settings. Strong communication and teamwork with the medical staff are essential.

Formación

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology or similar field is required.
• Minimum of 1 year in hospital, outpatient, or similar setting working with children, adolescents, and families is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Clinical assessments of patients including medical, academic, developmental and social function.
• Develop brief interventions to address medical/behavioral health conditions and coping skills.
• Identify and collaborate with treatment team members.
• Provide ongoing assessment and supportive counseling to families throughout the treatment course.
• Produce documentation of assessment, treatment plan and interventions.
• Connect families to community resources and support programs as needed.

Conocimientos

Psychosocial assessment

Counseling

Resource coordination

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or Psychology

Descripción del empleo

Department/Unit: HBD - General Pediatrics Work Shift: Day (United States of America) Salary Range: $59,066.00 - $88,599.00 Associate Social Worker General Pediatrics Albany, NY

Responsible for providing psychosocial assessment, support services, resource coordination, urgent evaluation, brief and problem focused supportive counseling and appropriate referrals of patients and their family members to behavioral health providers with the goal of maximizing the child's ability to access necessary medical care, promote health and wellness behaviors and support positive family functioning. Associate Social Worker will work with medical team and family to assess psychosocial needs and address any barriers to achieving optimal medical, socio-economic and academic needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Clinical assessments of patients to review patient’s clinical presentation, academic, developmental, psychological and social function including information regarding previous health history as well as behavioral health testing and treatment.
• Develop brief interventions designed to address the patient’s medical and/or behavioral health conditions, support adaptation, coping skills and empowerment, as well as minimize functional impairment for patients and families during and post treatment.
• Identify and collaborate with members of the treatment team.
• Provide ongoing assessment, education, supportive counseling to the family throughout the patient’s treatment course.
• Produce ongoing and concise documentation of assessment, observations, treatment plan and proposed ongoing interventions.
• Additionally provide updates to the medical and or treatment team regarding the patient and families’ adjustment to the existing behavioral health conditions and/or existing and anticipatory medical conditions.
• Identify, connect, and serve as a liaison to community resources and support programs on behalf of the patient and family as needed and according to their unique medical and behavioral health needs.
• Identify gaps in service areas, and work with patients and families to promote additional support and care especially during times of transition and shifts in care as related to patient’s disease process and prognosis.
• Provide supportive counseling, follow-up contact, and referrals to additional resources to patients and families struggling with cessation of treatment as well as to bereaved families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology or other similar field is required
• Minimum of 1 year in hospital, outpatient, or similar setting working with children, adolescents, and families is preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with other members of the health care team.
• Knowledge of developmental stages of children and adolescents.
• Compassion and understanding for working with patients and families during very stressful times.
• Knowledge and skill in clinical psycho-social interventions.
• Skilled at identification and coordination of resources within the health care system and in the community.
• Excellent clinical judgment.
• Awareness of culture, ethnicity, developmental ability, gender, socio-economic factors and other considerations as they relate to patient presentation, understanding of illness, interventions, and treatment approaches and options.
• Caring, clinical competence, and professionalism.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and all other professional standards.

Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System! Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer. This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes.

Workforce members are expected to ensure that: Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.

Albany Medical Center is the centerpiece of medicine, research, and medical education in New York’s Capital Region and is the area's largest private employer with more than 10,000 employees. Albany Medical Center offers excellent career opportunities in a wide range of roles in both patient care and administration. We value all our staff members and offer outstanding employee benefits including:

• Excellent health care coverage with no copay at Albany Medical Center providers
• A wide array of services and programs to support emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing
• Anchored in the state’s historic capital city, Albany Medical Center offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient care and is home to the region’s largest hospital, only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma centers, and only children’s hospital.
• The downtown campus also offers opportunities at Albany Medical College.
• Albany Medical Center, along with Columbia Memorial Health, Glens Falls Hospital, Saratoga Hospital, and the Visiting Nurses, form the Albany Med Health System, serving more than three million people over 25 counties.