Social Work Specialist II
Company: Arnot Health System
Location: Elmira
Posted on: February 25, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description MAIN FUNCTION: The Social Work
Specialist II independently provides casework services to patients
and families as indicated to address the psychosocial aspects of
care regarding adjustment to illness and treatment. The Social Work
Specialist II will work collaboratively with interdisciplinary
staff internal and external to the organization. The Social Work
Specialist II will also play an intricate part in the Case
Management of multifaceted plans. The Social Work II will
participate in quality improvement and evaluation processes related
to patient satisfaction and patient rights. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Identifies appropriate patients for Social Work services.
Appropriately utilizes high risk screening tools for identification
of patients requiring Social Work services. 2. Maintains a working
knowledge of the community resources available. 3. Communicates,
Collaborates, and negotiates with all members of the
multi-disciplinary team to assess the needs of the patient/family.
Provides a plan of care for their caseload population. 4. Assesses
assigned patients to identify needs, issues, resources and patient
strengths which facilitate a successful resolution of all
identified issues including but not limited to discharge planning
issues, mental health factors and family dynamics. 5. Supports
patient self-determination by accurately explaining available
resources and options to consumers promoting, understanding and
fostering decision-making. 6. Educates health care team colleagues
regarding psychosocial aspects of illness to better understand
specific patient populations. Provides Hospital wide education
and/or community education. 7. Develops and implements solutions to
problems beyond the scope of practice of Case Managers and other
disciplines to reduce resource consumption, length of stay and
increase patient and family satisfaction and compliance with all
aspects of the plan of care. Is able to creatively develop these
when traditional interventions are inadequate and or unavailable.
8. Provides leadership to the health care team especially for
complex situations to facilitate the coordination of services and
resources for patients. 9. In the absence of the case manager,
coordinates patient discharges and transfers including arrangement
of DME, home health services, rehabilitation or RHCF placement and
for those cases that due to their complex nature have been referred
to social work. 10. Consistently attends daily patient care rounds
and actively participates in them. 11. Participates in Program of
Care meetings as requested to assure patient/family
social/emotional needs are addressed. 12. Supports continuity of
care for assigned primary and secondary caseloads. Appropriately
utilizes departmental mechanism to assure seamless transitions of
care delivery during periods of reduced staffing. 13. Regularly
attends and provides leadership for Department Staff meetings and
Continuum of Care meetings, etc. Supports the mission of the
department through participating in activities such as QI teams,
focus teams, programs of care or related department specific
activities. 14. Maintains a close working relationship with
physicians. 15. Is responsible for continuing professional
development. Attend, conferences, workshops and inservices to
further professional skills. Participates in professional skills.
Participates in professional organizations as related to areas of
practice. 16. Utilizes professional supervision on a regular basis
to review complex cases and to ensure department supervisor is
informed when particularly involved and/or complex cases are being
served. Is able to demonstrate independent practice. 17. Maintains
information in patient record as per departmental standards. 18.
Participates in department Performance Improvement activities. 19.
Participates in departmental on call program to provide emergency
and crisis intervention services to the entire medical center as
needed. Performs suicidal risk assessments as needed. 20. Regularly
provides and supports educational opportunities for student field
placement. Works Weekend and On Call on a rotating basis with SW
Team. Provides on call assistance to hospital patients and families
as outlined in SW On Call/Weekend Policy. Is responsible for
attending all annual mandatory educational programs as required by
position. Provides age appropriate care to neonate, children,
adolescent, adult and geriatric patients. Employee understands and
demonstrates the importance of satisfying the needs of the
customer/patient by interacting with him/her in a friendly and
caring way, being attentive to the customer's needs, both
psychologically and physically, and by taking the initiative to
maintain communication with the customer in order to provide a
secure and pleasant experience with the Medical Center It is
understood that this job description lists typical duties for the
classification and is not to be considered inclusive of all duties,
which may be assigned. EDUCATION: Must possess a "Licensed Master
Social Work" or "Licensed Clinical Social Work" registration from
NYS Department of Education or Master's Degree in Social Work from
an accredited (CSWE) school. EXPERIENCE: Social work experience in
hospital setting highly desired. CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
(CPR) REQUIREMENTS: No CPR required. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Some
physical effort. Light objects lifted, some reaching and stooping.
Required to be on feet much or the time. EXPOSURE CATEGORY:
Category II. Tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids or
tissues. But employment may require performing unplanned Category I
tasks. A.D.A Essential Functions Job Posted by ApplicantPro
Keywords: Arnot Health System, Syracuse , Social Work Specialist II, Healthcare , Elmira, New York
