At Stony Brook Medicine, our social workers are valuable members of our team, who provide empathic care to our patients, their families and visitors, with the highest degree of integrity and respect.

We are currently expanding our team of social workers to include intake coordinators for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. Due to great demand for psychiatric and behavioral health services, we aim to add experienced social workers to assist our team in appropriately triaging Child & Adolescent patients to the health care provider or situation that best fits their needs as well as identify barriers that might obstruct their abilities to engage in treatment.

Qualified candidates will demonstrate excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, knowledge and understanding of patient care, and effective responses to changing patient needs, decisions-making based on ethical principles and adhering to our high standard of excellence. We are looking for clinicians who are comfortable treating children and families of diverse backgrounds with a commitment to maintaining an inclusive care environment.

Duties of Intake Coordinators may include the following but are not limited to:

• Engaging patients and families into treatment utilizing motivational interviewing techniques.
• Assessing patients’ needs, safety and establishing a working diagnosis.
• Coordinating care with new patient coordinator to ensure that patients are assigned to a clinician who can meet their specific needs.
• Identifying barriers to treatment and coordinating services as appropriate.
• Intake assessments take place both in person and via telehealth.
• As we are an academic medical center, appropriately referring patients to research coordinators.
• Intake coordinators may carry a caseload for both individual and group therapy modalities.

Required Qualifications:

MSW from an accredited Social Work Education School. New York State LCSW licensure. R licensure required. Experience in crisis intervention. Experience working with Electronic Medical Record keeping. Knowledge of DSM V diagnosis criteria and ICD codes.

Preferred Qualifications:

SIFI certified. Experience providing care via telehealth videoconferencing platform. Four (4) years post Master's experience. Experience providing evidence-based psychotherapy and curriculum-based group and family psychotherapy. Three (3) years of experience in a community mental health care setting. Bilingual care clinicians are encouraged to apply.

All application materials must be submitted online. Please use the Apply Now button to begin your application. For technical support, please visit Interfolio's Support Site (https://support.interfolio.com/) or reach out to their Scholar Service Team at help@interfolio.com or (877) 997-8807.

For questions regarding this position, please contact Michele Chituk at michele.chituk@stonybrookmedicine.edu.

Special Notes

Non-Tenure Track position. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.

Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible.

Campus Description

Long Island's premier academic medical center, Stony Brook Medicine, represents Stony Brook University's entire medical enterprise and integrates all of Stony Brook's health-related initiatives: education, research and patient care. It encompasses Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Children's Hospital, the five Health Sciences schools - Dental Medicine, Health Technology and Management, Medicine, Nursing and Social Welfare - as well as the major centers and institutes, programs and more than 50 community-based healthcare settings throughout Suffolk County. With 624 beds, Stony Brook University Hospital serves as Suffolk County's only tertiary care center and Regional Trauma Center. Stony Brook Children's, with more than 180 pediatric specialists in 30 specialties, offers the most advanced pediatric specialty care in the region. In the Medical and Research Translation (MART) building, two floors are occupied by Stony Brook University Cancer Center’s outpatient services, and four floors are devoted to cancer research. Diversity, equity and inclusion are essential core values at Stony Brook Medicine. We believe we do our best and most impactful work when we leverage our diverse, equitable and inclusive perspectives. We are proud to recruit and hire talented people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

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In accordance with federal and state regulations that all hospitals and nursing homes require personnel to be vaccinated against COVID-19, candidates who are not already fully vaccinated must obtain the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine within three (3) calendar days of acceptance of a conditional job offer and must obtain any subsequent doses in accordance with that particular vaccine manufacturer’s protocol. Candidates who are partially vaccinated, but not yet fully vaccinated, must complete their vaccination series within three (3) calendar days of a job offer or in accordance with that particular vaccine manufacturer’s protocol, whichever comes later.

The state regulation also includes those who may be affiliated with or interact with employees of a hospital or nursing home. The regulations allow for limited exemptions with reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable law.

The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.

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