Social Worker, Palliative Care at Home - (Mount Sinai Home Health) Full Time - Day

Job Title: Social Worker, Palliative Care at Home - (Mount Sinai Home Health) Full Time - Day

Palliative Care at Home provides home based palliative symptom assessment, treatment and ongoing goals of care discussions for patients and families facing advanced illness.  The full clinical team is comprised of CHWs, NPs, nurses, social workers and physicians. The team works in collaboration with patients’ healthcare teams to provide high-quality evidence based complex palliative care and chronic care management and is designed to improve symptoms and QOL, reduce caregiver burden, reduce unnecessary inpatient utilization, and facilitate hospice when appropriate. Social Worker assesses psychosocial needs/acuity and identifies opportunities for SW intervention based on case finding, patients' needs and referrals from care team.   

DESCRIPTION OF COMPETENCIES

A.   Operational Duties 

• Provides direct social work service to patients and caregivers by providing assistance with social and 
  practical environmental problems. 
• Provides supportive individual and family counselling to reduce anxiety/stress and symptoms precipitated 
  by advanced illness and hospitalizations.  
• Work closely with interdisciplinary team to create and coordinate patient care plans, including comprehensive 
  interdisciplinary plan of care that meets the patient and caregiver needs and address changes in patient 
  symptoms.
• Work closely with the clinical team to help process emotional and psychosocial nature of this work. 
• Educates patient/family on trajectory of illness, use of medications, assesses disease understanding.
• Participate in weekly IDT meeting with care team.
• Excellent teamwork, communication and leadership skills.
• Documentation as required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
   

Required: 

• Master’s degree in Social Work from a CSWE accredited social work program 
• Licensed as a LMSW or LCSW in NY 
• Palliative care/hospice experience
• Experience working in interdisciplinary care teams 
  Preferred: 
• Hospice and Palliative Certification 
• Chronic illness management experience
• Spanish speaking proficiency/fluency 
   

Strength through Unity and Inclusion

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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 48,000 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 more than 9,000 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, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $79720 - $119580 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.