Associate Director, Social Work
New York City, NY (On-site)
Posted 9 days ago
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Job Description
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America’s oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 700,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown. We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source. Bellevue’s clinical centers of excellence include: Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care; Cardiovascular Services; Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Comprehensive Children’s Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.
At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.
Duties & Responsibilities
Under direction of the Director of Social Work, assists in the planning, organizing, implementation and coordination of the full Social Work Program in a hospital center. Plans, supervises and coordinates the staff and activities of several discrete Social Work units. Serves with full responsibilities and authority in the Director’s absence. In a Psychiatric Facility, assists in planning, formulating policies and practices, coordinates the Psychiatric Social Work program and practice throughout the Hospital Center.
Examples Of Typical Tasks
Plans, coordinates and supervises staff and activities of selected Social Work program units and other such duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the Director. In a Psychiatric Facility, advises in psychiatric social problems, and defines the psychiatric social work role and function.
In uncovered areas of need, carries out responsibilities of all viable programs.
Assures that programs are related to objectives and meet requirements of service needs.
Consults with and advises Director on resolution of operational programs.
Is responsible for liaison and coordination of cooperative programs with Schools of Social Work and directing assignments and on-the-job training of assigned students to assure optimal utilization.
Evaluates and audits social work program and/or psychiatric social work programs, program accomplishments and makes recommendations for appropriate action.
Develops communication networks to achieve appropriate interpretation of the hospital’s policies and programs and its expectation for patient and family.
Advises the Director on policy and procedural changes, community problems, placement and utilization of staff development and implementation of productivity goals and submits recommendations for improvement of services.
Maintains liaison and consults with community and civic agencies, professional organizations and confers with hospital and other functionally-related officials on matters of mutual concern.
Develops and directs the education and training programs for professional and nonprofessional Social Work staff. Is responsible for evaluation of performance of professional staff.
Participates in staff meetings and conferences and represents the Director in all phases of his or her delegated duties and responsibilities.
Prepares special reports, studies and budgetary estimates.
Minimum Qualifications
- Licensure (LMSW or LCSW) issued by The New York State Education Department (NYSED); and,
- Six (6) years of experience in Clinical Social Work, of which three (3) years are in a health care or medical care setting including psychiatric and medical social work, and three (3) years in a supervisory, consultative and administrative capacity in a organization adhering to acceptable standards with knowledge of administration, with administrative and managerial skills and abilities; or,
- A satisfactory completion of training and experience. However, all applicants/incumbents must possess licensure as described in (1) above at the time of appointment; and,
- Demonstrated ability to function productively and cooperatively with Director of Social Work, Medical Staff, and Administrative Staff and to supervise effectively.
How To Apply
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NYC Health + Hospitals is the nation’s largest public health care delivery system. We are an integrated network of hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, and post-acute care centers. We are a home care agency and a health plan, MetroPlus. The health system provides essential services to more than 1.4 million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 patient care locations and in their homes. Our talented workforce of more than 40,000 represents the diversity of our city and the communities we serve. The excellence of our staff, and our continued mission to care for all without exception, make us unique and rightly positioned to provide equitable, high-quality, culturally responsive, and affordable health care in every New York City community.Our promise to New Yorkers: Empower every New Yorker – without exception – to live the healthiest life possible by providing equitable, high quality, culturally responsive, and affordable health care in every community.
