Social Worker - LMSW, Heart Transplant

Mayo Career Site UK; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayo Clinic Arizona transplant social worker delivers specialized psychosocial care across advanced heart failure, LVAD, and heart transplantation, within a collaborative team setting. You will support patients and families from evaluation through waitlist management, hospitalization, and lifelong post-transplant follow-up.

This role requires advanced clinical judgment, strong psychosocial assessment skills, and the ability to perform urgent evaluations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced psychosocial assessment skills.
• Ability to work under pressure with sound decision-making.
• Knowledge of insurance, disability, and financial assistance resources.

Responsibilities

• Support patients and caregivers from evaluation through post-transplant follow-up.
• Coordinate candidacy review, waitlist management, and hospitalization planning.
• Address clinical, emotional, logistical, and caregiver needs.
• Navigate insurance and financial assistance resources with clarity.

Skills

Clinical judgment

Psychosocial assessment

Urgent evaluations

Caregiver support

Job description

The heart transplant social worker delivers specialized psychosocial care to patients across the continuum of advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation. This role requires strong clinical judgment, efficiency, and the ability to perform effectively under pressure while maintaining professionalism, sound decision-making, and reliable follow-through.

As a core member of the multidisciplinary team, this position supports patients and caregivers from initial evaluation through candidacy review, waitlist management, transplant hospitalization, and lifelong post-transplant follow-up. The social worker provides psychosocial support in both inpatient and outpatient settings, addressing clinical, emotional, logistical, and caregiver-related needs while helping patients navigate insurance, disability, and financial assistance resources with clarity and empathy.

This role calls for advanced clinical judgment, strong psychosocial assessment skills, and the ability to complete urgent, high-stakes evaluations in a fast-paced environment. It also requires knowledge of psychosocial complexities associated with long-term device management, transplant readiness, and patient stability.

At Mayo Clinic Arizona, transplant social workers are valued as essential clinical partners within a highly collaborative, nationally recognized transplant program. This role offers the opportunity to support patients and families through some of the most complex and meaningful moments in healthcare while advancing excellence in heart transplant and LVAD care.

*This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship with the exception of the TN visa classification; Also, Mayo Clinic DOES NOT participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.