Healthy Steps Specialist, LMSW in WEBSTER, New York at Rochester Regional Health

STATUS: Full time

Job Title: Healthy Steps Specialist, LMSW
Department: Maternal Child
Location: Bay Creek Pediatrics - 2000 Empire Blvd Suite 150 Webster, NY 14580
Hours Per Week: 40
Schedule: M-F days 8:30am-5pm

SUMMARY:

Healthy Steps, a program of Zero to Three, promotes nurturing caregiving, which supports families and improves healthy development and well-being of babies and toddlers, preparing them for school and life. The Healthy Steps Specialist is an early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with patients’ ages 0-5. The Healthy Steps Specialist builds strong relationships with families and providers to increase the efficiency of the medical system and support team-based comprehensive care.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promotes the Healthy Steps program within the practice to families and providers.

• Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider.

• During visits, focus on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance.

• Conducts consultations on a short-term basis for needs regarding development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, picky eating, etc.

• Maintains a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time.

• Creates and maintains community resource directory/database.

• Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make successful connections to key resources within the community.

• Is an active member of the Healthy Steps Implementation Team and attends regular team meetings

• Is an active member of the RRH Maternal Child Team, attending and participating in regular meetings and activities

• Maintains open communication with all members of the primary care team.

• Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in the EMR.

• Participates in Healthy Steps training (Virtual Healthy Steps Institute).

• Participates in administrative and clinical/reflective supervision meetings.

• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work.

• 1-2 years of pediatric experience.

Required Licenses/Certifications:

• Licensed Masters Social Worker (LMSW) license

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Clinically licensed mental health professional preferred.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Commitment to working with underserved populations in a community setting.

• Empathic, supportive, and patience.

• Ability to work with people of many backgrounds and cultures.

• Ability to work well in teams and independently.

• Ability to multitask and triage/juggle multiple appointments and conflicting priorities

• Flexibility in communication: able to switch between being on the floor playing with young patients and communicating with medical professionals regarding mental health interventions in a professional, coherent, and efficient manner.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: S - Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

PAY RANGE: $62,400.00 - $75,500.00

The listed base pay range is a good faith representation of current potential base pay for successful applicants. It may be modified in the future. Pay is determined by factors including experience, clinical licensure date, relevant qualifications, specialty, internal equity, location, and contracts.