Clinical Social Worker, Triage Team (4/10s, 9:30AM-8:00PM EST)

About the role

Thyme Care is a tech-native organization that partners with national and regional health plans, providers, and employers to deliver better outcomes and lower costs for thousands of people with cancer. This role serves as the primary intake clinician for escalated behavioral health and advanced social needs consults and alerts.

Responsibilities

• Triage, assessment & brief intervention
• Serve as the primary intake clinician for escalated behavioral health and advanced social needs consults and alerts; complete time-sensitive psychosocial and safety/risk assessments via phone, video, or ThymeBox.
• Deliver brief, targeted interventions for stabilization and safety planning (e.g., de-escalation, suicide risk management, immediate safety planning).
• Apply standard screening/assessment tools and document assessment findings, clinical impressions, and immediate plans in the member record for members.
• Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to identify patients' and families' needs to address emotional concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, adjustment, and coping mechanisms related to cancer diagnosis and treatment.
• Assess for and address financial toxicity, distress, changes in relationships/roles, custody planning, caregiver demands, advance care planning, and spiritual/existential distress.
• Assess, diagnose, and provide therapeutic interventions to address behavioral health needs.
• Bio psychosocial assessment competence with integration of serious illness and end of life themes, including exploration of palliative care themes - goals, values, preferences, advanced care planning, exploration of mortality.
• Escalation & clinical decision-making
• Utilize clinical judgment and Thyme Care Clinical Escalations SOP to determine escalation pathways for behavioral health crises (e.g., psychosis, suicidal/homicidal ideation), social safety events (exploitation, self-neglect), and other active clinical needs.
• Initiate escalations using the required channels and notify the appropriate clinical leads.
• Care coordination & navigation
• Provide high-complexity BH management or support other needs when appropriate; Coordinate with Nurses, Care Partners, Providers, and community-based organizations to address barriers to care (e.g., housing, financial supports, legal/custody issues), and advocate to facilitate connections to supports and services.
• Track referral status and ensure continuity of care until a stable plan or higher-level provider ownership is established.
• Consultation, documentation & team support
• Maintain timely, high-quality documentation of triage assessments, safety plans, referrals, and escalations according to organizational standards.
• Provide concise clinical consultation and decision support to Care Team members.
• Participate in case conferences and huddles to communicate high-risk members and to support coordinated care.
• Quality & continuous improvement
• Monitor triage volumes and recurring escalation drivers; identify opportunities to improve triage workflows, reduce repeat crises, and enhance member safety.
• Support knowledge-sharing across Social Work (triage tools, job aids, decision-support resources) and contribute to ongoing refinement of triage processes and pod handoffs.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from a CSWE-accredited program.
• Current, unrestricted master’s-level social work license in primary practice state (e.g., LCSW/LISW).
• Minimum 3 years’ clinical social work experience in a healthcare setting; experience with crisis intervention and behavioral health strongly preferred (oncology/palliative/serious illness care experience desirable).
• Proven competence in risk assessment and crisis management (suicidality, homicidality, psychosis), and strong telehealth/phone clinical skills.
• Excellent clinical judgment and ability to make time-sensitive decisions while working remotely.
• Preferred: Oncology social work experience and/or OSW-C or APHSW-C certification.
• Experience as a subject-matter consultant or working within a Behavioral Health pod model.

Qualifications

• Willingness to obtain additional state licenses as needed for cross-state practice.
• Experience working in a startup, virtual care, or tech-forward environment is a plus.
• Triage and action orientation: Skilled at utilizing structured and unstructured assessment to address member needs, identifying urgency, and prioritizing next steps. Extremely clinically sound. Takes prompt, thoughtful action to address time-sensitive psychosocial, emotional, financial, or care-related concerns. Calm under pressure and knows how to foster that in other team members you are supporting.
• Strong organizational skills: Able to manage multiple member needs, tasks, and follow-ups in a fast-paced environment while maintaining clear, timely, and accurate documentation.
• Communication and relationship-building: Effective listener and communicator who can quickly build trust with members, caregivers, and colleagues. Collaborates well across interdisciplinary teams and communicates with clarity, warmth, and professionalism.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working through change, ambiguity, and evolving processes. Flexible, solutions-oriented, and grounded in member-centered care. Understands the level of self-care needed to serve those navigating serious illness, emotional distress, and behavioral health crises.
• Comfort with technology: Eager to learn and use new technologies. As a technology-enabled care company, we rely on tools that help us support members when they need us most. Experience with video visits, Google Suite, Slack, electronic health records, care management platforms, or similar tools is important.

Benefits

Thyme Care offers a competitive salary range of $92,000, which could be lower or higher depending on the role and internal equity. The company also provides equity, benefits, and other opportunities.

Pay

The base salary for this role is $92,000. The salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired at another level.

Schedule

The schedule for this role consists of four 10-hour workdays, including Monday, Friday, Saturday, and one additional day of your choice. Saturday availability is only required temporarily and is expected to continue through to September.