Senior Social Worker, Bone Marrow Transplant
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
When you join the growing BILH team youre not just taking a job youre making a difference in peoples lives.
The Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Social Worker position is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Social Worker to join an interdisciplinary BMT/ Oncology Team including oncologists nurses case managers and transplant coordinators to provide quality care to patients and families on the inpatient hematology oncology service. Performs psychosocial assessments for bone marrow transplant candidates and donors identifying barriers to care and providing recommendations to transplant team. Works with resource specialists and cultural navigators to help connect patients with oncology-specific community resources and navigate complex medical system. The Social Worker provides a key role in assessing and supporting the psycho-social needs of patients and their support systems and addressing barriers to care to help optimize outcomes. Also works with patients and families to better cope with new cancer diagnoses and complex treatment courses. This critical role includes providing short term supportive counseling and group work. Opportunities for facilitating cancer-related support groups and supervising staff on the oncology social work team.Experience in Oncology care preferred. LICSW required.
Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:
- Screens and triages patients who request service are referred or meet screening criteria. Conducts psychosocial assessments and provides indicated services including crisis intervention short term counseling psychotherapy and group services. Assists with discharge planning and/or outpatient continuity of care.
- Provides consultation to the team around patient management risk management and ethical issues.. Documents assessments and care plans in medical record. Meets productivity standards and expectations as set by the leadership in Social Work and the assigned clinical area.
- Demonstrates advanced organizational and systems thinking. This includes but is not limited to: Identification of practice and systems issues development of new modes of approaching systems and/or clinical problems. May initiate or participate in research.
- Demonstrates leadership within ones social work group service area and in the Medical Center. This includes regularly leading segments of the teams work. Initiates and/or acts as a leader for small projects or work groups. Voices ideas and constructively participates in Departmental and interdisciplinary CQI activities.
- Demonstrates an adult learning style by seeking opportunities for continued growth and setting goals for own professional development. Assumes some regular responsibility for conducting seminars primary supervision of social work staff and/or students; formal and informal interdisciplinary teaching and consultation.
Required Qualifications:
- Masters degree in Social Work required.
- License Lic Indep Clinical Social Work (LICSW) required.
- 3-5 years related work experience required.
- Current MA license or license from a state with reciprocity. If licensed in another state expected to obtain MA license within 3-6 months.
- Experience with computer systems required including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint or Access.
Competencies:
- Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
- Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied complex and often non-recurring requiring staff input innovative creative and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
- Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
- Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
- Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff patients families and external customers.
- Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
- Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
- Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
Physical Nature of the Job:
- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus
Pay Range:
$92664.00 USD - $117520.00 USDThe pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors that may include seniority education training relevant experience relevant certifications geographyof work location job responsibilities or other applicable factors permissible by law.
As a health care organization we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35000 people working together. Nurses doctors technicians therapists researchers teachers and more making a difference in patients lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Motivational Interviewing
- Acute Care
- Crisis Intervention
- Behavioral Health
- Intake Experience
- Hospice Care
- Case Management
- Home Care
- Child Welfare
- Experience with Children
- Social Work
- Addiction Counseling
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