Social Work - Social Worker - $35 per hour

Mass General Brigham is seeking a Social Work Social Worker for a job in Boston, Massachusetts. Job Description & Requirements Specialty: Social Worker Discipline: Social Work Duration: Ongoing 40 hours per week Shift: 8 hours, days Employment Type: Staff At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. When determining base pay, we take a comprehensive approach that considers your skills, relevant experience, education, certifications, and other critical factors. The pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications, but it does not encompass all the elements that contribute to your total compensation package. QUALIFICATIONS - Education: Master’ s of Social Work Degree (MSW) from an accredited program required. - Licensure: Require Current Massachusetts Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Massachusetts Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW). - Experience: Previous clinical social work experience in a hospital setting preferred. - Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred. Your offer of Employment as a Clinical Social Worker, LCSW is contingent upon passing the LICSW exam. The Clinical Social Worker is required to take the exam within 6 months of eligibility and will be allowed a total of 12 months to successfully pass the exam. Failure to pass the LICSW exam (within a 12-month period after eligibility) will result in termination of employment. Individuals who do not attain LICSW may apply for other vacant positions for which they are currently qualified and will be considered for rehire as a Clinical Social Worker, LICSW once they have passed the LICSW exam. Skills: 1. R equires strong communication skills (written and oral). 2. C lear, concise and timely documentation. 3. A bility to develop and communicate both clinical formulations and recommendations to inter-professional colleagues. 4. A bility to support inter-professional colleagues when their own personal distress impacts the care they are able to provide to their patients/families. 5. A bility to work both independently and collaboratively with various role types in both the inpatient hospital and outpatient clinic. 6. K nowledge of community resources inclusive of eligibility criteria. 7. W orking knowledge of Advance Care Planning documentation including Health Care Proxies, Guardianships, and Conservatorships. 8. C reative problem-solving to support patients’ priorities and goals, reducing/eliminating barriers to care and resources to promote health equity. COMPETENCIES - Clinical experience, understanding of, and comfort working with patients of all ages who suffer complex medical and psychiatric problems; ability to work with the families of such patients, and ability to help patients and families understand and access the resources required to support care. - Ability to provide rapid clinical psychosocial assessments and brief, short or long term treatment/management with individuals, families, couples and/or groups. - Advanced crisis intervention/treatment/management skills; strong assessment and treatment skills. - Differential diagnosis and treatment with all modalities - Competence in abuse/neglect/violence, trauma, grief loss and bereavement - Cultural sensitivity and demonstrated competency in age specific behaviors - Knowledge of specific medical/psychiatric illnesses, procedures and treatments - Excellent clinical social work assessment and crisis intervention knowledge and skills - Strong understanding of psychiatric and family system problems, and ability to use this understanding to formulate succinct case summaries. - Knowledge of community agencies/resources. Ability to advocate/negotiate systems for/with patients and families. - Demonstrated ability to understand the role of social worker in a complex, fast-paced medical environment - Demonstrated ability to consult/teach - Demonstrated ability to communicate effective orally and in writing. Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation skills necessary to collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team. - Tolerance for ambiguity; analytical skills and computer literacy - A sense of humor WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS - Social Workers provide clinical care in various settings: at the bedside, in treatment areas and offices; and in patient’ s homes. - The Department of Care Coordination /Social Work will operate 7 days per week. Hours and work schedule will be flexible to meet the needs of patients, families, hospital and staff. - Must be prepared to come in to work or stay at work during a hospital emergency. Patient Population: Staff member must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his/her assigned areas. HEART PALLIATIVE SOCIAL WORKER / FULL TIME/ 40 HOURS/ BWH CARE CONTINUUM/ BOSTON MA - SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE - LICSW or LCSW - Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a nationally ranked academic medical center - Grow and learn through regular internal continuing education programming, financial support for continuing education courses and conferences, and mentorship. - Ask about our SIGN ON BONUS for eligible candidates (Non-MGB employees) - Excellent benefits: generous Paid Time Off; 403B match; cash balance pension; tuition reimbursement of $5,250/year, including continuing education; medical and dental; short-term disability; MBTA pass subsidy; and much more. - Convenient public transit/ T-accessible Longwood Medical area location at the Main Campus at 75 Francis Street, Boston. ABOUT THIS PALLIATIVE SOCIAL WORKER JOB: The Palliative Care Social Worker ( LCSW or LICSW) with experience working in a large, fast-paced academic medical center with inter-professional team focusing on patients with Advanced Heart Disease and their families. Social Worker will utilize their palliative care clinical skillset, effective communication, familiarity working with patients with serious illnesses, and competence working with interprofessional colleagues, as well as others in the Cardiology specialties (e.g., transplant). The "HeartPal" team works very closely with one another, along with the primary medical teams, integrating knowledge and skillsets and dedicating time to provide comprehensive assessments, treatment plans and next-step recommendations, as well as assisting in developing disposition plans in collaboration with the primary and specialty teams. The HeartPal social worker must have familiarity with conducting and/or participating in family meetings, serious illness communication, as well as comfort providing “anticipatory guidance” to patients and their loved ones. The HeartPal social worker will dedicate time in the out-patient setting working with patients referred to the HeartPal program by cardiology providers. The HeartPal social worker will have dedicated time to work on relevant mezzo and macro projects will be a part of the BWH Palliative Care, HeartPal Program, which provides palliative care to patients with heart disease across the care continuum, including in-patient, out-patient and dialysis settings. The BWH HeartPal team is inter-professional and includes an experienced palliative care social worker, palliative care nurse practitioner and palliative care physician. The HeartPal Program is a collaboration between the Departments of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, and Care Continuum Management at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Palliative Care Social Worker is a key member of the inter-professional team, providing and overseeing the provision of palliative care, and, in particular, psychosocial interventions for selected patients and families. Some of the core tasks include: identifying psychosocial and emotional factors that impact the health status of patients/families; formal and informal teaching and modeling the role of palliative care in the course of serious illness; and practicing effective communication strategies to elicit and document patients’ values and goals to inform health-related decisions. The Palliative Care Social Worker provides clinical services to patients/families that address environmental, age-specific and cultural issues to maximize emotional, social and physical well-being and effective use of health care and community resources. The Palliative Care Social Worker collaborates with the medical team and provides social work consultation within the hospital and community during care transitions to increase continuity when patients are most vulnerable. The Palliative Care Social Worker is an effective inter-professional team member and is attuned to team dynamics. Core tasks to promote teamwork include: participation in, contribution to, and implementation of processes to support team cohesion and sustainability. The BWH HeartPal Social Worker will participate regularly in team meetings and contribute to program planning, implementation, and evaluation, as well as presentations in both clinical and other, broader settings. The Palliative Care Social Worker will ensure documentation of patients’ values and goals and will facilitate referrals to appropriate clinical care teams within the hospital during admissions, as well as across care transitions. Twenty percent (20%) of this full-time position will be dedicated to program development, measurement and education. Working closely with the HeartPal team, the Palliative Care Social Worker will represent, advocate, and teach other clinicians the psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of this patient population. The Clinical Social Worker reports directly to the Manager, Palliative Care Social Work, Dept. of Care Continuum Management. The Clinical Social Worker will be provided mentoring by the Heart Pal inter-professional team and will have opportunities to collaborate with other palliative care social workers. Job Responsibilities: 1. I n collaboration with the patient, complete accurate and thorough advance care planning documentation. 2. A bility to clinically assess the variety of factors that may impact goal-concordant care planning and contribute concerns and conclusions that can help guide both the patient and team in this planning process. 3. W orking with primary and HeartPal teams to triage patients who can benefit from specialty HeartPal Social Work support/follow up or referral to other services. 4. W orking collaboratively with the patient and family to identify community resources upon discharge, when applicable. 5. A ssessing psychosocial functioning and barriers to patient/family centered care and provide interventions to support goal concordant care. 6. P romoting cultural humility 7. S upporting diversity, equity, and inclusion with patients, families and colleagues. 8. D eveloping clinical formulations and recommendations from a psychosocial professional lens and sharing these observations and recommendations with the interdisciplinary team with the goal of treating the ‘whole patient'. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical Practice: - Provides assessment of patients to evaluate mental health/psychiatric history/emotional issues/coping style, understanding of illness/adjustment/compliance, barriers to care, cultural issues, abuse/neglect and domestic violence. - Provides psychosocial assessment of families to determine family relationships/systems as they relate to care of the patient. Identifies family decision makers and caregivers; family understanding of illness and trajectory of care. Identifies family coping style, family resources and cultural issues. - Employs a range of clinical interventions such as individual, group or family counseling. Provides caregiver/family counseling/support to promote family cohesiveness to provide care to patient and prepare families for end of life. Advocates on behalf of patients and families to gain access to services and resources. Refers patients to other providers, as necessary. - Develops comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessments responsive to age appropriate and cultural needs and concerns. Employs a range of clinical interventions such as psychotherapy (individual, couples, families, and group), psychosocial counseling, crisis intervention, care coordination, complementary therapies, information and referral and safety planning. Advocates on behalf of patients and families to gain access to services and resources. - Provides mandated assessments when abuse is suspected (child, disabled adult, elder) and safety assessment when domestic violence is reported. Files reports as indicated. - Id Mass General Brigham Job ID 3276887. Posted job title: Palliative Care Social Worker, Heart About Mass General Brigham Join the Mass General Brigham team Learn from others and be inspired. Work hard to solve for unknowns. Chase solutions. Be a part of something greater. 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