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Job Title: Social Worker (LCSW) - Student & Trainee Mental Health Service
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 Student and Trainee Mental Health (STMH) Service at Mount Sinai provides clinical services to the diverse population of Mount Sinai students and trainees. The social worker in this position is part of a multidisciplinary team at STMH that includes Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Social Workers.
Responsibilities
STMH is a unique and rewarding service that evaluates and treats medical students, residents, fellows, graduate students, and postdoctoral trainees in programs at Mount Sinai. STMH is located on the Upper East Side of New York city, adjacent to the Icahn School of Medicine. This is a full-time, outpatient position with a mix of on-site and remote work-3 days on-site and two remote. STMH is committed to meeting the needs of MSHS students and trainees, and the social worker will need to be able to provide evening hours, up to 2 days a week.
The social worker will provide care coordination and case management services (including maintaining up-to-date referral sources for community and specialized treatment), mental health evaluations and triage, and short-term psychotherapy for adult students and trainees. Therapy will be provided both on-site and via telehealth and documentation is on Epic.
Qualifications

• NYS LCSW.
• Experience providing mental health assessment and treatment with adults required.
• Experience with CBT, DBT, and other evidence-based therapy modalities.
• Experience working with specialized populations - such as individuals with substance use-related problems, individuals with a history of trauma - and experience working with the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities are pluses.
• Excellent clinical, collaborative, and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of individuals/groups.
• Excellent writing skills and ability to manage responsibilities of timely documentation in an electronic health record.
• Minimum one year in current position (internal applicants)

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 $88,691.00 - $101,670.78 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
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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 48,000 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 more than 9,000 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, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in 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. 11 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.
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