Clinical Social Worker Senior - Pediatric Primary Care

Partner's Healthcare; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Mass General Brigham is seeking a Senior Social Worker to provide clinical leadership, supervision, and direct behavioral health services within the Children’s integrated pediatric primary care program. You will support an embedded behavioral health team across pediatric practices, offering consultation, assessments, triage, and time-limited interventions while maintaining a clinical caseload.

The role includes supervision of social workers and licensed mental health counselors, mentoring staff,

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Social Work required.
• Clinical social work experience 3-5 years required.
• Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) required.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision to interns, social workers, and licensed mental health counselors.
• Co-facilitate bi-monthly case sharing group.
• Perform psychosocial assessments of patients and families.
• Formulate biopsychosocial assessments, dispositions, and treatment plans.
• Conduct mandated and safety assessments when abuse or violence is suspected.
• Collaborate with professionals as part of the interdisciplinary team.
• Monitor and document client progress toward treatment goals.
• Utilize therapeutic interventions, crisis assessment, and skill-building.
• Lead and participate in education, training, and clinical supervision.

Skills

Supervision

Case sharing

Psychosocial assessments

Biopsychosocial assessment

Safety assessment

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Documentation

Communication

Leadership

Education

Master's Degree in Social Work

Job description

Site: The General Hospital CorporationMass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries.

Job Summary

The Senior Social Worker provides clinical leadership, supervision, and direct behavioral health services within Mass General Brigham for Children's integrated pediatric primary care program. This role supports a newly established team of embedded behavioral health clinicians across MGB for Children primary care practices, fostering high-quality, evidence-based care for children, adolescents, and families. Embedded within a primary care site, the Senior Social Worker partners closely with pediatric providers to deliver consultation, behavioral health assessment, triage, crisis planning, and brief, time-limited interventions for an assigned patient panel. In addition to maintaining a clinical caseload, the Senior Social Worker provides clinical supervision and mentorship to social workers and licensed mental health counselors, promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, and contributes to the ongoing development, implementation, and evaluation of integrated behavioral health services across the department.

Qualifications

What you will do

• Provide supervision to interns, social workers, and licensed mental health counselors
• Co-facilitate bi-monthly case sharing group
• 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 (child, disabled adult, elder) and specialized safety assessment when violence is suspected
• Collaborate with other professionals to evaluate patients' needs as part of the interdisciplinary team.
• Monitor, evaluate, and record client progress according to measurable goals described in the treatment and care plan.
• Knowledgeable in therapeutic behavioral interventions, skill-building strategies, crisis assessment, management, and interventions.
• Strong knowledge of HIPPA, Patient Rights & Responsibilities, Joint Commission standards, and Centers for Medicare / Medicaid regulations.
• Completes required documentation and paperwork including biopsychosocial assessments and treatment planning and implementation in a timely manner.
• Ability to communicate and resolve issues effectively with a broad population of patients, staff and physicians.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team with a varied population of clients.
• Display strong leadership and communication skills to clearly guide peers.

Education Qualifications

Master's Degree in Social Work required

Experience Qualifications

Clinical social work experience 3-5 years required

Skills and Abilities

• Exemplifies expert depth of specialized clinical diagnoses and interventions.
• Is routinely sought out by team members for consultation on complex cases and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrates expert clinical assessment and diagnostic skills. Acts as role model; mentors other staff on this skill.
• Demonstrates advanced utilization of clinical skills and interventions and consistently contributes to training and education of staff. Acts as a role model for others, mentoring and training staff in skills.
• Demonstrates highest degree of leadership, flexibility, communication, independence, and teamwork. Is expected to provide significant contributions to education, training and clinical supervision.
• Leads or actively participates in clinical practice inquiries, teaching, projects, or research demonstrating expertise and depth of knowledge of social work practice and skills.
• May participate in the recruitment, onboarding and retention processes.
• Leads department/service initiatives; participates in initiatives at an Enterprise and Professional Association level.
• Uses data to define baseline issues and measure progress.
• Oversees collaboration and education among all disciplines and outside stakeholders to enhance patient care.

Licenses and Certifications

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker [LICSW - State License] required

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

• Remote Type Hybrid
• Work Location 165 Cambridge Street
• Scheduled Weekly Hours 40
• Employee Type Regular
• Work Shift Day (United States of America)
• Pay Range $92,227.00 - $126,027.20/Annual
• Grade 8

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth.

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