Position Description:

At Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, our Social Workers/Mental Health Counselors are valuable members of our team, who provide empathic care to our patients, their families and visitors, with the highest degree of integrity and respect. Social Workers/Mental Health Counselors apply the principles and practices of their profession to provide integrated social casework, including direct counseling, therapy, advocacy, and other services to individuals, families and groups in a variety of settings.  Social Workers/Mental Health Counselors plan, implement, coordinate and document treatment for individuals with mental health, and substance use; or perpetrators or victims of neglect, abuse, or crime who need therapeutic intervention. They provide individual, group and conjoint psychotherapy, counseling and case management services to patients experiencing psychosocial, mental health or substance use issues, including discharge planning. They perform intakes, develop treatment plans and make referrals as part of a multidisciplinary team and acting within the SBELIH and Quannacut mission, philosophy and goals

Essential Functions:

•    Provides individual, and/or group therapy services to patients and/or their families in the outpatient mental health/SUD setting.

•     Provides education, counseling and crisis intervention to patients and/or their families.

•     Utilizes psychosocial assessment skills to deliver comprehensive social work services.

•     Formulates and implements person-centered, trauma informed treatment and discharge plans.

•    Works in collaboration with the criminal justice system, care management, including AOT and ACT to provide quality care.

Required Skills/Abilities:

•    Demonstrates understanding of discharge planning.

•    Demonstrates patient-centered patient advocacy and service excellence

•    Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills.

•     Demonstrates understanding of community systems

•      Demonstrates teamwork.

•      Demonstrates understanding of data collection and statistics.

•      Demonstrates ability to manage complex caseloads.

•      Computer proficiency.

•      Basic Life Support (“BLS”) required; American Heart Association

Education and Qualifications:

•         Licensed Master of Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Mental Health counselor. NYS LMSW, LCSW, LMHC or eligible.

•         MSW, MHC from an accredited graduate school.

•         Licensed and currently registered to practice in New York State

•         Must comply with NASW and AMHCE Code of Ethics

•         NYS OASAS CASAC preferred

Physical Demands:

•         Must be able to respond quickly in an emergent situation

•         Must be able to use stairs in an emergent situation

•         Must be able to walk, carry semi-heavy equipment and reach overhead.

•         Must have excellent communication skills both orally and written in emergent situations.

•         Must be able to fully participate in Crisis Prevention Training

Special Notes: Resume/CV should be included with the online application.

•      Stony Brook Medicine is a smoke-free environment. Smoking is strictly prohibited anywhere on campus, including parking lots and outdoor areas on the premises.

•      All Hospital positions maybe subject to changes in pass days and shifts as necessary.

•      This position may require the wearing of respiratory protection, which may prohibit the wearing of facial hair.

•      This function/position maybe designated as “essential.” This means that when the Hospital is faced with an institutional emergency, employees in such positions may be required to remain at their work location or to report to work to protect, recover, and continue operations at Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook Eastern Long Island and related facilities.

Anticipated Pay Range:

The starting salary range (or hiring range) for this position has been established based on relevant experience. The above salary range (or hiring range) represents SBEILH’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Your total compensation goes beyond the number in your paycheck!

Prior to start date, the selected candidate must meet the following requirements:

•       Successfully complete pre-employment physical examination and obtain medical clearance from Stony Brook Eastern Long Island’s Employee Health Services *

•       Complete electronic reference check with a minimum of three (3) professional references.

•       Successfully complete a 4 panel drug screen*

•       Meet Regulatory Requirements for pre-employment screenings.

•       Provide a copy of any required New York State license(s)/certificate(s).

Failure to comply with any of the above requirements could result in a delayed start date and/or revocation of the employment offer.

*The Human Resources department will be responsible for any fee incurred for examination.

Company Overview:

As part of Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital (SBELIH) combines the best in academic and community medicine, improving access to advanced medical care for residents of the North Fork and Shelter Island. With 70 beds, SBELIH is Suffolk County’s first hospital, serving the North Fork since 1905. SBELIH provides care to 25,000 year-round residents and expanding to 60,000 summer residents with comprehensive healthcare solutions, including behavioral health, medical-surgical, orthopedics and general surgery, wound care, interventional pain management and GI, advanced ambulatory care, diagnostic, and physical therapy services. The hospital is also a clinical campus and training site for Stony Brook Medicine, with its first SBELIH Psychiatry resident having graduated in 2022.

StaffCo is a Professional Employer Organization, commonly referred to as a PEO, duly organized and registered under the New York Professional Employer Organization law.  StaffCo and SUNY have entered into a professional employer agreement under which StaffCo is the employer of Stony Brook Eastern Long Island employees and responsible for all aspects of employment, including hirings, promotions, disciplines, terminations, the day-to-day direction and supervision of work, as well as labor relations and collective bargaining. StaffCo is fully responsible for providing all payroll and human resources services, including the payment of wages, collecting and reporting payroll taxes and maintaining any and all employee benefits.  SUNY Stony Brook Hospital is responsible for the operation of the hospital and provision of health care and is the co-employer as is necessary to conduct its responsibilities and for related licensure, regulatory or statutory requirements and obligations.

Given StaffCo’s employment responsibilities, it is deemed the “employer” for employment and labor law purposes.   Thus, the employees are private sector employees of StaffCo, not public sector employees of SUNY.   The private sector nature of the StaffCo employees has been approved by NYS Civil Service and upheld in a decision by the US National Labor Relations Board.

Stony Brook Medicine is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of an inclusive learning, and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, consistent with our shared core values and our intent to achieve excellence, remains dedicated to supporting healthier and more resilient communities, both locally and globally.