Clinical Social Work Team Lead - Pediatric Primary Care

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals to advance our mission as a not-for-profit supporting patient care, research, teaching, and community service. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us.

About the role

The Social Work Team Lead 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 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 panel.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision to interns, social workers, and licensed mental health counselors
• Co-facilitate bi-monthly case sharing group
• Provide psychosocial assessments of patients and families with social, emotional, interpersonal and/or environmental issues; formulate biopsychosocial assessment, disposition, and treatment plans
• Provide 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
• Apply therapeutic behavioral interventions, skill-building strategies, crisis assessment, management, and interventions
• Maintain strong knowledge of HIPAA, Patient Rights & Responsibilities, Joint Commission standards, and Centers for Medicare/Medicaid regulations
• Complete required documentation and paperwork including biopsychosocial assessments and treatment planning and implementation in a timely manner
• Communicate and resolve issues effectively with a broad population of patients, staff, and physicians
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team with a varied population of clients
• Display strong leadership and communication skills to clearly guide peers
• Act as a role model and mentor for other staff on clinical assessment, diagnostic skills, and advanced utilization of clinical skills and interventions
• Lead or actively participate in clinical practice inquiries, teaching, projects, or research
• Participate in the recruitment, onboarding, and retention processes
• Lead department/service initiatives; participate in initiatives at an Enterprise and Professional Association level
• Use data to define baseline issues and measure progress
• Oversee collaboration and education among all disciplines and outside stakeholders to enhance patient care

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Social Work required
• 5-7 years clinical social work experience required
• Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW - State License) required

Skills and Abilities

• Exemplifies expert depth of specialized clinical diagnoses and interventions
• Routinely sought out by team members for consultation on complex cases and conflict resolution
• Demonstrates expert clinical assessment and diagnostic skills
• Demonstrates advanced utilization of clinical skills and interventions and consistently contributes to training and education of staff
• Demonstrates highest degree of leadership, flexibility, communication, independence, and teamwork
• Provides significant contributions to education, training, and clinical supervision

Additional Details

Hybrid role based at 165 Cambridge Street.

Pay

$105,684.80 - $153,722.40 annually.

Schedule

40 hours per week, day shift.