Social Worker, Healthy Steps Specialist

The Social Worker HealthySteps Specialist will be integrated into the primary care team to promote healthy emotional, social, and physical development in young children from birth to age 5. The HealthySteps Specialist works alongside physicians, nurses, and clinic staff to provide comprehensive, family-centered care focused on early childhood development, behavior, and family well-being.

• The Social Worker will provide onsite mental health services, including psychosocial assessment, documentation of interventions/referrals made.
• Preferred experience working with at-risk families and experience in early childhood development, behavioral health, or family-centered services.
• Assist with implementation of treatment plans with patients.
• Work closely with medical team and staff to support referrals for services.
• Manage a caseload of patients.

Essential duties and responsibililities

• The HealthySteps Social Worker will support families with young children by providing developmental guidance, screening, referrals, and parent support during well-child visits. The Social Worker will promote positive parent-child relationships, address behavioral and emotional concerns, and connect families to community resources.
• In the pediatric primary care setting, the social worker will administer developmental and mental health screening tools and provide support and anticipatory guidance for common concerns for parents of children ages 0-3, including feeding, behavior, sleep, depression, and adapting to life with a baby or young child.
• Conduct brief interventions for parents/caregivers, as clinically appropriate, such as on-site therapy sessions, for parents/caregivers with a positive depression screen or cases where the parent and/or the pediatric provider articulate a concern around mental health and parenting stress to the pediatric primary care team.
• Participate in research, educational and advocacy initiatives related to Healthy Steps. Manage a caseload of patients. Participate in bi-monthly behavioral health conferences on high-risk patients.
• Document psychiatric history and behavioral health assessment to develop patient care plan as indicated.
• Offer information and counseling on the best course of action during sessions
• Participate in care team meetings.
• Responds with care team via EMR on patient progress or needs