**Job Description** **Job Title: Social Worker - NICU (Inpatient and Outpatient)** **_Social Work Services at the Mount Sinai Hospital_** The Mount Sinai Hospital is a 1,134-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 position will split their time between the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the NICU follow-up clinic. Both positions require linking patient/family to appropriate resources, including early intervention; assess parent/caregiver mental health (including postpartum depression), identify any barriers to care and assessing social determinants of health. **Qualifications** NYS LMSW or LCSW. Demonstrated clinical skills, working with children in hospital settings; preferably with high risk pediatric populations. Strong team work and organizational skills. Interest in group work. Ability to work with a large population with intensive care needs. Bilingual (English/Spanish) _preferred._ Minimum one year in current position unless a Float in Women’s and Children’s Health. **Compensation Statement** The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $85,279.91 - $97,760.36 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital 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 **Responsibilities** **Neonatal Intensive Care Unit** The social worker in this position will be one of five 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, teamwork and collaborative skills. Infants hospitalized on this 46-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 focus on following infants less than 33 weeks gestation or birth weight less than 1500 grams, with complex medical needs. This includes complex care management of high-risk families and for coordinating follow-up ambulatory care services with social workers in the Children’s Health Home and the pediatric developmental program. The social worker will help ensure a smooth transition of these infants into 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. **Neonatal Intensive Care follow-up clinic** The social worker in this role will follow all families referred to the NICU/preemie follow up ambulatory care service. The social worker will meet families that will be followed in this clinic in the NICU prior to discharge. All infants less than 33 weeks gestation or birth weight less than 1500 grams, complex congenital heart disease, seizures, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, others at discretion of neonatologist are referred to this clinic. The social worker will also outreach to scheduled patients as both appointment reminders and to inform of social work’s availability at their visit. Emphasis will be on assessing transition to home following NICU hospitalization. Social Worker will explore opportunities for program development and the implementation of a group for parent/caregivers and their babies. This position requires close collaborate with NICU follow-up team as well as NICU inpatient social workers. **About Us** **Strength Through Diversity** The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: + Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. + Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. + Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! **“About the Mount Sinai Health System:** Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.” **EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans** **Compensation Statement** Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $85279.91 - $97760.36 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.