Clinical Social Workers

Exciting new integrated care positions available to provide mental health consultation to Strong Memorial Hospital Safety Net practices.The social worker functions as an integral member of a UR primary care team at the practice site. He/she provides screening, psychosocial assessment, psychiatric diagnosis and brief, evidence based treatment for a primary care setting. In this role the social worker also helps to identify high risk patients with behavioral health and medical comorbidities and contributes to a unified person centered treatment plan with the goal of improving the patient’s overall health and well-being, as well as facilitates access to specialty psychiatric and substance use care. The social worker participates in both formal and informal collaboration with primary care physicians, nurse practitioners and nursing care managers. These positions all require an LCSW- R level of social work licensure.