Description

At Neighborhood Health Center, you’ll find a kind and rewarding workplace with a fulfilling mission of providing impactful healthcare while striving for health equity. Neighborhood is the largest and longest serving Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Western New York. Together, we provide high quality care to diverse individuals and families, regardless of ability to pay.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts team based well child visits with parents and their babies and youngchildren with the physician/pediatric nurse practitioner

• Provides consultations with families with babies and young children regarding developmental and behavioral concerns such as sleep, discipline, picky eating, etc.

• Collaborates with HS team to implement all core components of the program including universal child development and SDOH screening, making positive parenting and early learning guidance information readily available to all practice staff, and adjusting workflows for optimal efficiency.

• Provides consultation to medical professionals and all practice staff re: early childhood development, infant mental health, and trauma informed practice.

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

• Maintains extensive databases required to meet HS fidelity metrics including both internal and external referrals.

• Collaborates with HS team to complete annual site reporting to the National Office, which may include analysis of both external database files and EMR data reports.

• Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in electronic medical records.

• Performs intake and evaluation visits to create therapeutic treatment plans and appropriately codes according to billing guidelines and submits charts for review and sign off, as appropriate.

• Maintains open communication with medical staff and members of the care team.

• Works closely with pediatric providers around care coordination, goal setting, counseling, coaching and education about key aspects of a child’s development.

• May conduct home visits and may accompany families to key medical, specialty, and community agency appointments as needed.

• May facilitate parents’/caregivers’ groups.

• Participates in reflective supervision meetings.

• Participates when appropriate in community-wide early childhood health and development initiatives.

• On-site coordination of Reach Out and Read program activities and integration.

• Other duties as assigned.

Compensation: LMSW - $62,000-$66,000; LCSW - $67,000-$72,000 annual salary (based on a full-time, 40 hour work week)

Individual compensation is based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other position related components.

Requirements:

• Must possess a Master’s Degree in Social Work and a strong desire to work with an urban population and possess a thorough knowledge of health issues affecting the population throughout the lifecycle. Must be able to read, write and speak the English language. A second language of Spanish preferred.

• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Must be able to read, write and speak the English language; a second language of Spanish preferred

Why Neighborhood?

There are many fantastic benefits to a career at Neighborhood. We offer a kind, diverse, team-based work environment with competitive compensation and potential bonus, as well as comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, life insurance, 403b match, health savings accounts, generous paid time off and loan forgiveness, if applicable.

Neighborhood Health Center is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to the practice of equity and inclusion.

Qualifications

Education

Required

• Masters or better in Social Work