Senior Social Worker, LICSW (Longwood

As a member of the multidisciplinary oncology team, the Senior Social Worker, LICSW, provides an advanced level of patient and family‑centered care through clinical psychosocial assessment and intervention, including crisis response, individual, couples, family, and group interventions, and short‑term bereavement support.

• 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; this includes those patients seen for screening for high risk of developing cancer and/or a diagnosis of cancer through to end of life and/or survivorship in collaboration with community mental health partners.
• Responsible for completing an assessment that evaluates both the internal and external factors that impact the adaptation of families and caregivers to patient’s illness and ensures maximum participation of patients/families/caregivers in the continuum of care process.
• Provides highly skilled clinical interventions that are focused on cancer‑related distress, are evidence based, goal‑oriented, strengths‑based, and short‑term and episodic in nature to ensure patient equity and accessibility to social work interventions; modalities include individual, family, and group work.
• Identifies and addresses high‑risk psychosocial factors as well as psychosocial strengths of patients/families/caregivers that impact health status, coping and adjustment (e.g., suicidal or homicidal risk, domestic violence, disabled, child or elder abuse and neglect, physical, developmental or intellectual disabilities, serious mental health conditions, etc.).
• Responsible for facilitating complex serious illness and goals of care conversations to ensure shared treatment decision‑making and effective patient‑physician communication.
• Responsible for identifying and communicating systemic inequities, their impact on patients, families, caregivers and the community at large and providing recommendations for systemic change.
• Responsible for demonstrating commitment to diversity and equity efforts, including advocacy and self‑education to advance knowledge base of the needs and concerns of underserved and marginalized populations.
• Communicates clinical assessment and recommendations and providing consultation and support to interdisciplinary health care team.
• Initiates and leads collaboration with interdisciplinary team to manage psychosocial barriers that limit patients’/families’/caregivers’ ability to access and/or engage in recommended medical care.
• Provides advanced education/consultation regarding impact of cancer on patients and families/caregivers to community, and provides advanced consultation, education, and program development (e.g., support groups, psycho educational forums, etc.) within the disease‑based or service‑based team and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Responsible for evidence‑based facilitation of patient and/or family and/or caregiver support programs or groups; responsible for training/mentoring of others in this area.
• Provides in‑person and/or telehealth services to patients and families/caregivers; method of communication (i.e., in person/phone/Zoom video) is based on clinical assessment.
• Provides clinical coverage in other social workers’ absence(s).
• At request of leadership, professionally represents the discipline of social work, the division of social work and POPC to internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for clinical training of newly hired social workers in both individual and group settings.
• Responsible for being highly engaged and leading annual divisional strategic planning and implementation.
• Responsible for identifying, implementing and mentoring in a specific area of clinical and/or leadership expertise to positively contribute to the needs of the division.

• Master of Social Work
• Seven (7) years social work experience required; health care setting preferred with at least three (3) years in an oncology setting or with oncology…