OUR VISION

To continue as an eminent healthcare provider on Long Island, dedicating ourselves to providing exceptional health care for all our patients and to transform both the lives of the individual, and the community, for the better, one person at a time.

OUR VALUE PROPOSITION

To provide whole person care that will ensure that all patients have access to primary, specialty and social health care to achieve and maintain optimal wellness at a transparent and affordable cost.
JOB TITLE: HealthySteps Specialist
REPORTS TO: Director of Behavioral Health
The following statements reflect the general duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of this position.
The HealthySteps Specialist, a child development and behavioral health promotion and prevention expert, joins our pediatric team and together we will follow the evidence-based guidelines of the HealthySteps model to promote nurturing parenting for the most vulnerable age group 0-3 yrs, which improves babies’ and toddlers’ healthy development and well-being. This aspect of the position is managed by the Director of Pediatrics.
Additionally, this position has a clinical component where part of the schedule is devoted to conventional direct patient clinical care. In this capacity, the position is supervised by the Director of Behavioral Health.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work
• New York State License required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Previous work experience in behavioral health or health setting preferred
• Ability to travel to other sites as needed
• Ability to work well in teams and independently
• Ability to collect and enter data for program management, evaluation, and reporting purposes
• Bilingual in Spanish/and or Creole preferred
  SALARY: Commensurate with experience
  MORE INFORMATION: This is an exempt position

HEALTHYSTEPS RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotes HealthySteps within the practice to families and providers
• Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider; 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 family support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time
• May facilitate parent/caregiver groups

PATIENT CARE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engages patient(s) in therapeutic process through one-on-one therapy and/or group therapy sessions
• Provides therapeutic intervention to patients with behavioral health needs, including individual, family, and group psychotherapy, community work, crisis intervention, case management, other treatment modalities
• Prepares psychosocial histories/reports and maintains treatment records, in accordance with clinic and regulatory guidelines
• Conducts psychosocial assessments and develops and implements treatment plans
• Obtains collateral information from patients, family members, outside treatment providers, schools, and other relevant team in the assessment of medical and behavioral health needs
• Responds to referrals and consultation requests from primary care providers
• Participates in agency Quality Assurance activities and case discussion meetings
• Provides task supervision and consultation to social work interns, other clinical trainees, and volunteers if needed
• Other duties as assigned.