Clinical Social Worker II

This position is responsible for performing social work assessments and interventions as needed for inpatients, outpatients, and emergency department patients. The Clinical Social Worker Senior provides support to those who are dedicated to patient and family-centered care that values personal self-determination, are skilled at managing multiple priorities at once, and engaging in creative, compassionate, and ethical problem-solving. As a member of a multidisciplinary health team, they perform comprehensive assessments and develop treatment plans that integrate the medical, social, and resource issues that impact individual patients, families, and at-risk populations. They work collaboratively with all healthcare team members to develop and implement treatment plans that support patient-centered plans of care for both individual patients and the medical community.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families with social, emotional, interpersonal and/or environmental issues.
- Formulates biopsychosocial assessment, disposition and treatment plans.
- Provides mandated assessments when abuse is suspected, including child, disabled adult, or elder abuse, and specialized safety assessments when violence is suspected. Plans discharge from care facility to home or other care facility.
- Collaborates with other professionals to evaluate patients' medical or physical condition and to assess client needs as part of the interdisciplinary team.
- Monitors, evaluates, and records client progress according to measurable goals described in treatment and care plan.
- Screens, addresses, and manages social determinants of health.
- Prepares and maintains all pertinent records, statistics, and progress notes.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree Social Work or Master's Degree Mental Health & Behavioral Medicine required.

• Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) licensure required.

• 3+ years clinical social work experience required.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Demonstrates a mastery of a range of specialized clinical diagnoses and interventions.
- Conducts clinically competent complex and high-risk assessments, treatment plans and interventions.
- Demonstrates mastery in problem solving abilities, conflict resolution, efficiency, and communication skills.
- Formulates advanced psychosocial assessments and treatment plans.
- Supports other staff in developing assessments and plans in complex cases.
- Demonstrates advanced clinical judgment and innovation in advocating for clients.
- Demonstrates advanced working knowledge of internal and external resources and refers appropriately.
- Demonstrate ability to identify problems in order of urgency and initiate treatment plans towards timely solutions and appropriate time management skills.
- Demonstrates the ability to articulate SW clinical perspective in team meetings, effectively collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to comprehensively problem solve and optimize a plan of care.
- Escalates to Social Work leadership all operational issues and high risk and complex cases.
- May provide clinical supervision based on department need (MSW students and/or social work staff).
- Seeks opportunities in the department and hospital or may be asked by SW leadership to participate in initiatives, projects, quality reviews, and committees and participates in these at an entity and Enterprise level.
- Creates content for skill-based groups.
- Promotes timely and concise collaboration among all disciplines and outside stakeholders to enhance patient care (including but not limited to, Ethics Committee, SDoH Committee, Office of General Counsel, Case Management department, etc.).

Schedule and Work Model

• Full-time, Monday through Friday, standard business hours.

• Hybrid work model: In the community and/or on-site at 125 Nashua Street in Boston, MA up to 4 times per week; remote work on other days.

• On remote workdays, employees must use a stable, secure, and compliant workstation in a quiet environment. Teams video is required and must be accessed using MGB-provided equipment.

Mass General Brigham Community Physicians, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.