Social Worker MSW

About Us

We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do.

We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care.

The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center.

Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Overview

Provides professional clinical social work, and discharge planning services as appropriate to individuals, families, and groups in the assigned social work area. Works with the social, emotional, and related financial problems precipitated by or resulting from illness, medical treatment and/or hospitalization.

Responsibilities

Identifies, screens and assesses in a timely manner, those patients families and significant others who require social work services

Provides ongoing social work treatment to patients, families and significant others for health-related psychosocial problems, based on goals agreed to by patient, family and significant others. Utilizes individual, family, group work and crisis intervention methods to provide high quality care

Leads support groups for patients, families and/or significant others

Integrates social work services into the total care of the patient within the hospital and community by participating in such meetings as patient care rounds and team meetings on assigned units/areas. Helps coordinate the interdisciplinary patient treatment and discharge planning, in order to achieve integrated timely care, and acts as patient advocate, as needed

Documents promptly on the social work forms/or other approved area of the patient's medical record, as per departmental policy, the social work screening, assessment, treatment, progress and outcomes, evaluation and recommendations, in order to provide timely, integrated, continuous care of high quality. Completes required departmental forms to document services provided, including departmental statistics

Evaluates assigned delivery of social work services to uncover unmet needs, patient/family patterns, and further areas of social work development

Develops knowledge of hospital and community resources and refers patients, families and hospital staff to the appropriate service in the hospital and/or in the community, in order to insure continuity and quality of care

Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment/quality improvement program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards

Assessment, treatment and patient care responsibilities are delivered with a knowledge of patient growth and development and are appropriate to the ages of the patients served

Qualifications

Education

• MSW from an accredited School of Social Work required.
• New York State Social Work Certification required.
• Certification in HIV/AIDS pre- and post-counseling required as appropriate.

Experience

1-2 years prior experience required in medical social work or comparable experience/setting/population, depending upon area assigned; 3-5 years of experience preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge of all rules and regulations of child abuse/neglect reporting as appropriate.
• Documented experience and knowledge of two direct practice modalities.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Must read, write and speak English to the extent required by position; knowledge of second language preferred.

Pay Range

USD $45.81 - USD $64.77 /Hr.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.