HealthySteps Specialist (LCSW)

HealthySteps Specialist - Clinical Pediatric Social Work (LCSW)

Full Time

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We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn’s only children’s hospital and only pediatric trauma center.  Maimonides’ clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center.  Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

The HealthySteps Specialist is an early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team at Maimonides Pediatrics to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with patients ages 0-5. You will build strong relationships with families and providers to support team-based comprehensive care. This position will by supervised by another HealthySteps specialist from one of the other Pediatrics locations. More information regarding HealthySteps can be found at healthysteps.org 

This position is part of the Brooklyn Parenting Center and the HealthySteps Specialist will join an interdepartmental team working with families across the Obstetrics and Pediatrics departments. Launched in Summer 2023, Brooklyn Parenting Center provides comprehensive, resilience-based developmental, behavioral, and mental health services for families in the first thousand days of life. 

Job responsibilities include:

• Conducting team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider. (Visits focus on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance)
• Conducting consultations on a short-term basis for needs regarding parental mental health and child development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, picky eating, etc.
• Maintaining a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time
• Creating/maintaining community resource directory/database. Provide referrals and track follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make successful connections to key resources within the community
• Being an active member of the HS Implementation Team and attend regular team meetings
• Working with the front office administrative staff to ensure scheduling of time in coordination with provider visits (i.e., well-child visits)
• Engaging in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure the HealthySteps model is delivered with fidelity
• Collaborating with HealthySteps implementation team to implement all eight Core Components 
• Working closely with pediatric primary providers around care coordination, goal setting, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child’s development
• Providing consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and all practice staff re: early childhood development, early relational health/infant early childhood mental health, and trauma-informed practice
• Maintaining extensive databases required to meet HealthySteps fidelity metrics including both internal and external referrals
• Documenting all patient clinical activity and care coordination in EHR
• Participating in HealthySteps training (Virtual HealthySteps Institute)
• Potentially facilitating parent/caregiver groups
• Actively collaborating and coordinating activities and referrals with other hospital units (e.g., Psychiatry, Pediatrics, OBGYN, Behavioral Health) to facilitate warm hand-offs and seamlessly integrated service provision 
• Participate in the Brooklyn Parenting Center staff meetings and represent the Brooklyn Parenting Center and the hospital at meetings and conferences

We require:

• Master’s degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work
• Current certification as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
• Experience and knowledge about early childhood growth and development, parent-child relational health, infant and early childhood mental health, and family systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Empathic, supportive, and patient working with underserved populations in a community setting
• Ability to work with people of many backgrounds and cultures
• Ability to take initiative and a willingness to learn
• Ability to collect and enter data for program management, evaluation, and reporting purposes.
• Computer literacy to improve care quality a plus. Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.
• “Grace under  pressure” with ability to multitask and triage/juggle multiple appointments and conflicting priorities
• Comfort with an open-door policy, potentially frequent interruptions, and warm hand offs
• Bilingual preferred.

Salary range for LCSW: $85,000-$95,000, commensurate with training and experience

For immediate consideration, please apply here: https://careers.maimo.org/jobs/9623?lang=en-us

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment.   All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard for race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.  MMC is committed to following the requirements of the New York State Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.