Social Worker; LCSW​/LICSW - Heart Transplant BWH

Position: Social Worker (LCSW/LICSW) - Heart Transplant BWH

Social Worker (LCSW/LICSW) – Heart Transplant – BWH

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals to advance our mission. As a non‑profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service. We believe high‑performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite you to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

Clinical Social Worker – Heart Transplant Team

Full time, 40 hours per week.

Pay and Benefits

• b Minimum: $68,224 for new LCSW or MSW grads.
• b Minimum: $92,227 for LICSW.
• Sign‑on bonus available for eligible non‑MGB employees: $3,000 for LCSW, $10,000 for LICSW. Please ask about the details.
• Other benefits: generous Paid Time Off; 403B match; cash balance pension; tuition reimbursement; continuing education; medical and dental; short‑term disability; MBTA pass subsidy; and more.

Job Summary

The Clinical Social Worker is a key member of the interdisciplinary team who provides and oversees psychosocial care for selected patients and families, including bio‑psychosocial assessments, interventions, and referral to community resources.

Clinical Practice:
Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ mental health, psychiatric history, emotional issues, coping style, illness understanding, compliance, barriers to care, cultural issues, abuse/neglect, and domestic violence.
• Assess families to determine relationships, decision makers, caregivers, understanding of illness, coping style, resources, and cultural issues.
• Employ clinical interventions such as individual, group, or family counseling; caregiver/family counseling; crisis intervention; care coordination; complementary therapies; information and referral; safety planning. Advocate for patients and families to access services and resources and refer to other providers as needed.
• Provide mandated assessments for suspected abuse (child, disabled adult, elder) and safety assessment for domestic violence. File reports as indicated.
• Identify psychosocial, financial, legal, psychiatric or substance use issues affecting patient care and collaborate with the team.
• Communicate with the interdisciplinary team, documenting timely and relevant information.
• Coordinate family/team meetings, psychosocial consultation on care planning, and implement psychosocial programs based on needs.
• Facilitate appropriate and efficient use of hospital and community resources.
• Participate in clinical case reviews, supervision, educational seminars, research projects.

Quality, Utilization Management – High Risk Psychosocial

• Intervene to address delays in service that affect care quality, length of stay or patient admissions.
• Determine anticipated length of stay and psychosocial barriers, collaborate with Nurse Care Coordinator on discharge planning.
• Engage home care, community agencies and facilities for timely transitions.
• Negotiate with care coordination team; follow up with patient/family or community agencies; evaluate transition effectiveness; identify delivery problems.
• Coordinate communication with patients/families about care plans, including meetings and warm handoffs.
• Ensure patients/families are involved throughout the care process.
• Maintain knowledge of service delivery needs within social, governmental, protective services and legal agencies.
• Collect data for departmental quality assessment with the care coordination department.
• Participate in quality assessment/improvement activities to evaluate the effectiveness of service delivery.
• Ensure consistent information to patients/families.
• Collaborate with the Social Work Manager/team to ensure efficient, quality patient care and equitable caseloads.

Leadership, Teaching & Education

• Assess learning needs, styles, readiness; educate patients/families.
• Mentor and supervise students and staff; teach in departmental and hospital seminars, workshops and rounds.
• Provide education and consultation to interdisciplinary providers and community on psychosocial issues.
• Demonstrate professional growth and create environment conducive to growth of others.
• Participate in departmental and hospital committees; potential participation in research.

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