Social Work – Womens & Childrens (NICU)

Job Title: Social Work Womens & Childrens (NICU)

Social Work Services at the Mount Sinai Hospital

The Mount Sinai Hospital is a 1134-bed facility with an extensive outpatient and specialty care network and is the largest hospital in the Mount Sinai Health Care System. It offers comprehensive social work services and programming to meet the myriad needs of the diverse populations we serve. We believe that total patient care must emphasize the physical emotional and social needs of each patient and their care partners. Social Workers collaborate within interprofessional teams to serve patients and the larger community from both a micro and macro level including both direct care and prevention. Founded in 1907 the Department of Social Work Services at the Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the oldest hospital social work departments in the nation with over 450 licensed social workers employed across more than 65 different program/service areas. Employment in our department provides a pathway to LCSW licensure as well as access to a broad range of continuing education professional development and extra-curricular opportunities.

The social worker in this new position will be one of a team of social workers responsible for the provision of social work services to all parents/families of newborns hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The NICU is composed of a large multidisciplinary team and requires strong clinical team work and collaborative skills. Infants hospitalized on this 60 bed unit (with surge capacity to 65) have a range of perinatal diagnoses including severe prematurity and life threatening diagnoses which influence the need for crisis intervention trauma focused treatment unique to this setting supportive counseling with families and intensive discharge planning efforts on their behalf.

The social worker will also be responsible for complex care management of high risk families and for coordinating follow-up ambulatory care services with social workers in the Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic the Childrens Health Home and the NICU follow-up clinic. Bereavement services for parents who sustain a neonatal loss are also an integral aspect of social work services on this unit.

In addition almost one day (17%) of this position is currently funded by a grant that supports programming in the NICU. This programming consists of:

• NICU Parent support group
• Quarterly NICU Newsletter
• Grandparent support
• REUNION (every other year)

• Co-chair of NICU family advisory council

  - Includes partnering with child life and or Project Sunshine for caregiver events sibling support

- Managing parent to parent support

• Bereavement committee

• NYS LMSW or LCSW.
• Demonstrated clinical skills working with children in hospital settings.
• Strong team work and organizational skills.
• Ability to work with a large population with intensive care needs.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
• LCSW preferred.
• Minimum one year in current position unless float in Pediatrics.

Compensation Statement

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 $88691.20 - $101670.78 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.

Non-Bargaining Unit 186 - Social Services - MSH Mount Sinai Hospital