Clinical Social Worker/LICSW/South Shore Hospital

About the role

This position provides clinical psychosocial intervention, crisis intervention, individual, couples and family counseling, support groups, and short-term bereavement therapy. It involves coordinating patient care through the continuum, facilitating optimal quality outcomes in relation to clinical care and cost-effectiveness. The role collaborates with a multidisciplinary team including oncologists, nurses, surgeons, and resource navigators to achieve optimal patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provides biopsychosocial assessment and intervention, crisis intervention, coordination of psychosocial services, and consultation to reduce cancer-related distress and improve quality of life for patients, families, and caregivers across the trajectory of cancer care.
• Assists health care team to integrate psychosocial factors, analyzes significant psychological, physical, emotional, social, economic issues of patients/families, and effectively communicates the relevance of such to other health care providers.
• Communicates clinical assessment and recommendations, provides consultation and support to interdisciplinary health care team, and initiates collaboration with interdisciplinary team to manage psychosocial barriers that limit patients’/families’/caregivers’ ability to access and/or engage in recommended medical care.
• Serves as liaison and collaborates with range of community and governmental agencies and resources, advocates for and obtains access to resources for patients/families, identifies deficits in resources and advocates for new resources.
• Participates in department meetings and institutional committees, attends department meetings consistently and promptly, provides leadership in committee work and meetings [e.g. QI, staff development], and participates in Supportive Oncology Collaborative meeting weekly with multi-d support team of psychiatry, psychology, palliative care, and social work.
• Delivers presentations and seminars to community at large, organizes and effectively presents [orally or via written materials] psychosocial issues for cancer patients/families, maintains current knowledge base on social work principles and interventions in an oncology setting.
• Participates in psychosocial research, identifies important areas for psychosocial research, maintains working knowledge of principles of research, initiates, develops and participates in psychosocial research projects.
• Teaches and supervises social work staff graduate trainees, volunteers, transmits knowledge of social work principles in an oncology setting, and psychosocial issues for patients/families.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Master’s Degree in Social Work from accredited program.
• Current Massachusetts license required: LCSW or LICSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker OR Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.
• Previous experience in hospital or healthcare setting.