Description

Job Description:
Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CIUMC) is seeking licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) to join our Primary Care Program. This is a full-time clinical position in an outpatient setting. The LCSW will report directly to the Director of Behavioral Health and will also have clinical direction from the primary care providers.

Primary responsibilities involve the evidence-based Collaborative Care Model (CCM), including integrated care that treats common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety that require systematic follow-up due to their persistent nature, focusing on defined patient populations tracked in a registry, measurement-based practice, and treatment to target. You will work with trained primary care providers providing evidence-based medication or psychosocial treatments, supported by regular psychiatric case consultation and treatment adjustment for patients who are not improving as expected. Ideal applicants should have previous experience providing population health-based outpatient treatment, strong interpersonal skills, the ability to work well across disciplines, and function effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Candidates will have opportunities to attend case conferences, peer supervision, and Grand Rounds at CUIMC. Candidates will work closely with a clinical team, including internists, family medicine physicians, pediatricians, a supervising psychologist, and other social workers, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners.

Requirements
Executes behavioral health interventions by collaborating with the care team and following the standards of care established by Columbia
Primary Care and the department of psychiatry
Assesses and systematically collects data related to patient behavioral health status and works with the care team to develop the plan of care
Participates in daily and/or sessional teamlet huddles when shared patients are discussed
Utilizes data, including registries, to continuously meet care coordination needs across settings in conjunction with the patient, family, and/or other care providers
Develops and maintains a working knowledge of community resources and managed care review processes
Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the behavioral health care of individual patients
Documents history, assessments, and interventions to reflect a comprehensive and integrated approach to patient care
Identifies learning needs of the patient and families, educates by adapting to patient and family learning style, utilizing the teach-back method
Provides care that is safe, ethical, patient- and family-centered, culturally congruent, and evidence-based

There are skills and responsibilities that are common across Columbia Primary Care. The licensed clinical social worker may perform any or all of these skills and responsibilities:
Telephone, virtual, and in-person triage and care
Review and manage communications from internal and external "customers."
Provide patient education
Complete, accurate, and timely documentation in the electronic medical record
Assist with the management of urgent and emergent patient care situations
Serve as a mentor and resource to others
Assist with the coordination of care across the continuum (e.g., inpatient, outpatient, home, skilled nursing facility, schools)
Assist with the management of patients with multiple chronic health conditions, acute episodes of care, and behavioral health challenges while
promoting and supporting prevention and wellness
May float to other clinics on an as-needed basis for operations need
Other duties as assigned, appropriate tothe  scope, education, and/ or training

Requirements

Licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in New York State
Must successfully complete systems training requirements