Clinical Social Work Specialist

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking senior social work professionals to craft evaluation tasks for AI systems deployed in large public agencies and health care settings. You will design scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics reflecting how senior clinicians and program leaders think and decide.

The role covers clinical caseload ownership, multi-stakeholder care coordination, and complex risk assessment in child welfare, behavioral health, and community-based case management contexts.

Qualifications

• Licensed clinical social worker with relevant licensure (LCSW/LMSW).
• Experience owning and managing clinical caseloads in large organizations.
• Strong understanding of ethics, compliance, and interagency coordination.

Responsibilities

• Construct social work scenarios spanning complex case assessment, multi-stakeholder care coordination, and crisis intervention or mandated reporting cycles.
• Build tasks across clinical social work practice, child and family welfare, healthcare/medical social work, substance use and mental health services, and community-based case management.
• Develop practice scenarios involving tools such as electronic health/case record systems (EHR, CCWIS), risk and needs assessment instruments, and interagency referral platforms.
• Apply social work frameworks (biopsychosocial assessment, trauma-informed care, strengths-based practice, NASW Code of Ethics) and produce reference case plans, clinical documentation, and interdisciplinary team communications.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic clinical and ethical judgment from generic textbook or policy-manual recall.

Skills

LCSW/LMSW license

Clinical caseload ownership

Interagency coordination

Ethics & compliance

Education

MSW degree

Tools

EHR systems

Case management software

Risk assessment tools

Job description

Role Overview

• Mercor is seeking senior social work professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in large human services and clinical social work contexts.

• The workflows are calibrated to the case complexity, stakeholder sensitivity, and client-outcome stakes of large public agencies, healthcare systems, and community-based organizations.

• Contributors design social work scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior clinicians and case management leaders think.

Key Responsibilities

• Construct social work scenarios spanning complex case assessment, multi-stakeholder care coordination, and crisis intervention or mandated reporting cycles.

• Build tasks across clinical social work practice, child and family welfare, healthcare/medical social work, substance use and mental health services, and community-based case management.

• Develop practice scenarios involving tools such as electronic health/case record systems (EHR, CCWIS), risk and needs assessment instruments, and interagency referral platforms.

• Apply social work frameworks (biopsychosocial assessment, trauma-informed care, strengths-based practice, NASW Code of Ethics) and produce reference case plans, clinical documentation, and interdisciplinary team communications.

• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic clinical and ethical judgment from generic textbook or policy-manual recall.

Ideal Qualifications

• 5+ years working as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW/LMSW) or senior case management professional at a hospital system, child welfare agency, behavioral health organization, or large nonprofit.

• Direct ownership of clinical caseloads, family/child welfare cases, or program-level service delivery.

• Fluency in social work practice standards and case management tooling, plus understanding of how mandated reporting, interagency coordination, and ethical/legal compliance actually work.

• Prior rubric, clinical training curriculum, or case documentation authorship is a plus.