Clinical Social Work Supervisor

Children's Hospital Colorado; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora is seeking a Clinical Social Work Supervisor to lead a team of social work professionals. You will coach, mentor and model best practices, schedule workload and PTO, and ensure high-quality patient care through effective supervision.

You will supervise daily operations, participate in hiring decisions, provide clinical supervision to team members, maintain department policies aligned with evidence-based practice, and coordinate coverage.

Qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience providing psycho-social assessment and interventions to patients and families, including three (3) years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
• Master's degree in Social Work.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license in Colorado (CO).

Responsibilities

• Mentors and supports staff on a daily basis, while creating a culture and atmosphere that will lead to a high level of employee engagement.
• Oversees scheduling, workload distribution, crisis management, payroll, resource allocation and utilization.
• Provides clinical supervision per best practice and licensure requirements to team members as assigned.
• Supervises daily department operations and ensures high-quality patient care by the social work team.
• Participates in hiring decisions, training, development, and evaluations of staff.
• Develops and maintains department policies, procedures, and guidelines aligned with evidence-based practice.

Job description

Job ID: 107447

Location: Aurora

Position Type: Regular

Regular/Temporary: Regular

The Clinical Social Work Supervisor provides supervision to a team of clinical support. The supervisor is responsible for coaching, mentoring, modeling best practices, scheduling, managing Paid Time Off (PTO) and day-to-day performance for direct reports. The position provides oversight of patient care and is responsible for ensuring appropriate care is provided by clinical social work team members.

Duties & Responsibilities

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

• Neonate - <30 days
• Infancy - >30 days to 1yr
• Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs
• Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs
• School age - >5yrs to 13yrs
• Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs
• Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the following essential functions. These examples do not include all the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

• Mentors and supports staff on a daily basis, while creating a culture and atmosphere that will lead to a high level of employee engagement.
• Assists with selecting, training, developing and evaluating social work team members. Collaborates on decisions regarding hiring, terminations, disciplinary action and promotions, as required. Identifies resource needs and develops recommendations for meeting needs.
• Provides clinical supervision per best practice and licensure requirements to team members as assigned.
• Supervises daily department operational functioning including scheduling, workload distribution, crisis management, payroll, resource allocation and utilization.
• Acts as a working supervisor to assist with patient and family interactions and facilitating care plans; remains available to provide coverage as needed.
• Assists with the implementation and maintenance of department specific policies, procedures, and guidelines while ensuring consistency with evidence-based practice and organizational policies, standards, and procedures.
• Resolves operational and patient/family issues, making decisions that are inclusive of multiple perspectives and solves underlying problems.
• Assists team members in achieving unit outcomes, performance and professional development standards; identifies opportunities for continual improvement.
• Provides clinical back up on a rotating basis with other CSW leadership positions.

SCOPE AND LEVEL

Guidelines: Guidelines are in the form of stated objectives for the section, unit, function, or project. Is normally the first level of full supervision in a classification series. Performs most elements of supervision over 50% of the time. May also perform the work of front line staff as needed.

Complexity: Work assignment is generally unstructured and employee is responsible for assigning and supervising a variety of functions to achieve the objectives of the section, unit, or project. Duties performed involve weighing and evaluating factors requiring judgment, analytical ability, and problem solving.

Decision Making: Employee is responsible for simultaneous coordination and supervision of several functions, programs, or projects in various stages of completion. Primary responsibility for arranging and directing the work of two or more employees.

Communications: Contacts are of a non-prescribed nature involving the negotiation and resolution of problems and where exceptional degrees of discretion, judgment, and specialized knowledge are required in carrying out the programs and policies of an organization.

Supervision Received: Under managerial direction, the employee has personal accountability for carrying out the work objectives of an organizational unit or section within the scope of established guidelines and the mission of the organization or department. Employee is expected to resolve problems that arise in the normal course of the work. Work may be discussed with higher level supervisors and reviewed for soundness of judgment and feasibility of decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Master's
• Area of Study
  • Social Work
• Experience
  • Five (5) years of experience providing psycho-social assessment and interventions to patients and families to include three (3) years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Licenses & Certifications
  • : Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Colorado (CO)

Schedule/Shift

• 40hrs FT
• Monday 10am-8pm
• Tuesday 11:30am-9:30pm
• Wednesday 10am-8pm
• Thursday 11:30am-9:30pm
• Must have ability to flex days/hours to meet the needs of afterhours team members. Leader on-call for 1 week approximately 2x per quarter

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $90,900.58 to $136,350.88

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Estimated Close Date

09/05/2026