Social Worker (LCSW), Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Outpatient Department (OPD)

Location: Stony Brook, New York
Open Date: Mar 26, 2025
Deadline: Aug 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description
At Stony Brook Medicine, our social workers 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.

We are currently expanding our team of social workers for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. Due to great demand for psychiatric and behavioral health services, we aim to add experienced social workers to assist our team in appropriately triaging Child & Adolescent patients to the health care provider or situation that best fits their needs as well as identify barriers that might obstruct their abilities to engage in treatment.

Qualified candidates will demonstrate excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, knowledge and understanding of patient care, and effective responses to changing patient needs, decisions-making based on ethical principles and adhering to our high standard of excellence. We are looking for clinicians who are comfortable treating children and families of diverse backgrounds with a commitment to maintaining an inclusive care environment.

Duties will include the following but are not limited to:

• Engaging patients and families into treatment utilizing motivational interviewing techniques.
• Assessing patients' needs, safety and establishing a working diagnosis.
• Carrying a caseload for individual, family and group therapy modalities.
• Coordinating care with an interdisciplinary team to ensure that patients are assigned to a clinician who can meet their specific needs.
• Identifying barriers to treatment and coordinating services as appropriate.
• Intake assessments take place both in person and via telehealth.
• As we are an academic medical center, appropriately referring patients to research coordinators.
• Coordinating with outside agencies to gather collateral information and provide referrals (as appropriate).

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
MSW (or foreign equivalent) from an accredited Social Work Education School. New York State LCSW licensure. Background in providing evidence-based psychotherapies. Experience working with children and adolescents.

Preferred Qualifications:
R Licensure Preferred. SIFI certified. Experience providing care via telehealth videoconferencing platform. Four (4) years post Master's experience. Three (3) years of experience in a community mental health care setting. Experience working with Electronic Medical Record keeping. Bilingual care clinicians are encouraged to apply.

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Special Notes
Non-Tenure Track position. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.

Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible.

Campus Description
Long Island's premier academic medical center, Stony Brook Medicine, represents Stony Brook University's entire medical enterprise and integrates all of Stony Brook's health-related initiatives: education, research and patient care. It encompasses Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Children's Hospital, the five Health Sciences schools -- Dental Medicine, Health Technology and Management, Medicine, Nursing and Social Welfare -- as well as the major centers and institutes, programs and more than 50 community-based healthcare settings throughout Suffolk County. With 624 beds, Stony Brook University Hospital serves as Suffolk County's only tertiary care center and Regional Trauma Center. Stony Brook Children's, with more than 180 pediatric specialists in 30 specialties, offers the most advanced pediatric specialty care in the region. In the Medical and Research Translation (MART) building, two floors are occupied by Stony Brook University Cancer Center's outpatient services, and four floors are devoted to cancer research. Diversity, equity and inclusion are essential core values at Stony Brook Medicine. We believe we do our best and most impactful work when we leverage our diverse, equitable and inclusive perspectives. We are proud to recruit and hire talented people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.

In accordance with the Title II Crime Awareness and Security Act, a copy of our crime statistics is available upon request . It can also be viewed online at the University Police website at .

Stony Brook University 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.

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