SOCIAL WORKER MSW

Social Worker MSW

Location: Bronx, New York

Hourly Rate: $39.40

Work Shift: Day

Work Days: Per Diem

Hours: 8:30 AM–5:00 PM (7.5 hrs)

Responsibilities

• Assist patients, families, and support systems to cope with illness impact and facilitate safe, timely discharge and treatment plans.
• Screen patients for social service interventions, conduct psychological assessments, and ensure continuity of care through development, implementation, and validation of discharge plans.
• Coordinate services and provide psychological education/feedback, appropriate referrals, and act as liaison.
• Refer clinically complex cases to Licensed Social Workers.
• Organize workload with appropriate parties based on medical plans, patient needs, and departmental policies.
• Demonstrate proactive advocacy, mediating, and negotiating skills with patients, families, associates, and community.
• Maintain Social Work professional conduct and practices; develop networking relationships and participate in patient‑focused internal/external conferences.
• Participate in departmental programs: quality improvement, statistical reporting, continuing education, staff meetings.
• Utilize psychological expertise to assist with team building, discharge planning, conflict resolution, and psychological education for interdisciplinary staff.
• Demonstrate knowledge of legal and ethical issues related to end‑of‑life care, informed consent, refusing treatment, withdrawing life‑sustaining treatment, DNR orders, advance directives, decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, and futility doctrine.
• Identify, report, and intervene for victims of individual/family violence, rape, mugging, elder abuse, and child abuse/neglect.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of Social Work (Council of Social Work Education).
• LMSW or LCSW required.
• Per Diem experience preferred.

Montefiore Medical Center is an equal‑employment‑opportunity employer. Montefiore Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, lay off and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, or other protected characteristics.