Clinical Social Work Team Lead Pediatric Primary Care
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Boston, MA - USA
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Job Summary
Mass 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 and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
SummaryThe Social Work Team Lead provides clinical leadership supervision and direct behavioral health services within Mass General Brigham for Childrens 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 Team Lead partners closely with pediatric providers to deliver consultation behavioral health assessment triage crisis planning and brief time-limited interventions for an assigned patient addition to maintaining a clinical caseload the Team Lead 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
- Masters Degree in Social Work required
Experience Qualifications
- 5-7 years Clinical social work experience 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)
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Pay Range
$105684.80 - $153722.40/AnnualGrade
9EEO Statement:
At Mass General Brigham our competency framework defines what effective leadership looks like by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance make hiring decisions identify development needs mobilize employees across our system and establish a strong talent pipeline.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Patients at Mass General have access to a vast network of physicians, nearly all of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty and many of whom are leaders within their fields.
