Ambulatory Care Behavioral Health Social Worker
Troy, NYFull-time$30–43.08/hrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 5 days ago
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The Ambulatory Care Behavioral Health Social Worker provides clinical social work services, care planning, case management, and community resource coordination for patients and families using inpatient and outpatient medical services. The role uses motivational interviewing, assessment, and clinical interventions, and participates in quality improvement initiatives. It also supports integrated care, resource utilization, and connections to community, mental health, and substance use disorder resources.
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Employment Type: Full timeShift: Day Shift Description: Ambulatory Care Social Worker – Troy, NY
If you are looking for a position as a Social Worker in the Troy area, full-time, this could be your opportunity. Here at St. Peter's Health Partner's, we care for more people in more places.
Position Highlights:
- Quality of Life: Where career opportunities and quality of life converge
- Advancement: Strong orientation program, generous tuition allowance and career development
- Work/Life: Monday – Friday
What will you do: SPHP has a rewarding full time opportunity for a licensed social worker to join our teams in the Capital Region.
Ambulatory Care Behavioral Health Social Worker provides advanced clinician social work services, care planning, case management, and community resource coordination to patients and their families who utilize inpatient and outpatient medical services. The work involves the use of motivational interviewing, assessment and clinical interventions aimed at positively affecting the physical, cognitive, and emotional functioning of patients and their families. Social Work actively participates in QI initiatives within the hospital ambulatory setting. The Behavioral Health Social Worker plays a significant role within our Accountable Care Organizations and assisting members in our accountable care organization where we are responsible for ensuring the highest outcomes, satisfaction and value in the total cost of care as well as our most vulnerable community members in mitigating Social Influencers of Health and making valuable connections to Community Based Organizations as well as Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder resources and any other needs within the Social Work Scope of Practice.
Responsibilities also include:
- collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and delivering Integrated Care,
- quality outcomes
- and ensuring appropriate utilization of resources.
Requirements:
- Master's degree in Social Work is required
- NYS LMSW or LCSW is preferred
- Three years previous clinical experience in Medical, Psychiatric or Health Care Setting required
- Some supervisory experience preferred.
Pay Range: $30.00-$43.08 Pay is based on experience. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location.”
Our Commitment
Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,381 open Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$30–43.08/hr
- New York median$30–43/hr203 hourly ranges
- US median$31–45/hr914 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $36.54/hr, is close to the New York median midpoint ($37/hr) — in the middle half of Social Worker hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 520 open Social Worker jobs in New York and 3,381 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Trinity Health (this employer)45 open
- New York State Civil Service21 open
- The Jewish Board19 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — more than three in four Social Worker postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 1,642 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,782 of the 3,381 open Social Worker jobs (53%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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