- Salary
- $106k – $154k
- Location
- 165 Cambridge Street Boston (Charles River Plaza East), United States of America
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Healthcare
- Seniority
- Lead
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Workday
Description
Site: The General Hospital Corporation
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. In 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.Hybrid165 Cambridge Street40RegularDay (United States of America)1200 The General Hospital Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.
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Job Summary
SummaryThe 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. In 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
- Master's 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)
Remote Type
Work Location
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Employee Type
Work Shift
Pay Range
$105,684.80 - $153,722.40/Annual
Grade
9
EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Competency Framework
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.
Skills
Patient Care
