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About the Role
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. The Associate Social Worker will work with the medical team and family to assess psychosocial needs and address any barriers to achieving optimal medical, socio-economic and academic needs.
Responsibilities
- Perform clinical assessments of patients to review their 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, and minimize functional impairment for patients and families during and post treatment.
- Identify and collaborate with members of the treatment team.
- Provide ongoing assessment, education, and 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.
- Provide updates to the medical and/or treatment team regarding the patient and families’ adjustment to 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 the 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.
Requirements
- Minimum of 1 year in a 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Psychosocial assessment
- Support services
- Resource coordination
- Urgent evaluation
- Supportive counseling
- Referrals
- Behavioral health
- Medical care access
- Health and wellness promotion
- Family functioning support
- Intervention development
- Team collaboration
- Documentation
- Community resource identification
- Liaison services
- Service gap identification
- Transition of care support
- Cessation of treatment support
- Bereaved family support
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Healthcare team collaboration
- Child and adolescent development
- Clinical psycho-social interventions
- Resource coordination
- Clinical judgment
- Cultural awareness
- Confidentiality
- Professional standards
Location
- Albany, NY
Work Type
- Day Shift
Experience Level
- 1 year preferred
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology or other similar field
Salary/Compensations
- $59,066.00 - $88,599.00
About the Company
- Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.