Social Worker MGH SUD Bridge Clinic - Part-time

Social Worker MGH SUD Bridge Clinic
- Part-time

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The General Hospital Corporation Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
** Job Summary
** SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE for eligible Non-MGB employees:  $3,000 for LCSW and $10,000 for LICSW    Starting rates:  LCSW: $32.80/hr   LICSW: $44.34/hr    The Social Worker is an integral part of the Bridge Clinic, a low-barrier, transitional outpatient clinic for addiction care s position is a critical member of a collaborative care team that includes a resource specialist, recovery coach, physicians, nurse practitioners, psychologists, nurses, and patient service coordinators.

This position will both provide direct clinical care and associated team-based care coordination. The primary clinical responsibilities will be to provide psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, brief evidence-based treatment, including motivational intervention, CBT, and psychoeducation, for Bridge Clinic patients, particularly those with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. This role will have responsibility for rapid assessment, crisis management and team coordination for patients with acute presentations, as well as responsibility to assist with care planning and coordination for patients with severe dual diagnosis conditions.

In addition, this role will collaborate with all team members to develop and support transition plans for these patients within all levels of the addiction treatment care and mental health continuum.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  Intake Coordination:  o Assess patients who are referred to Bridge Clinic from inpatient, ED, and community settings with complex mental health and addiction needs to aid with evaluation, treatment planning, and linkage to most appropriate care placement.  o Assist in providing brief assessments for urgent or unscheduled walk-in patients to ascertain specific mental health care needs, in collaboration with nurses or providers, and assist with developing effective care plans as needed.
Clinical Care:  o Provide trauma-informed, short-term, outpatient individual and/or group counseling, utilizing psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to assist patients with change readiness, recovery stabilization and wellness goals.  o Provide clinical support to complex patients on transition planning as they may need clinically informed transfer of care utilizing motivational interviewing and trauma-based perspectives.
o Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation as needed for patients who present for care with acute mental health needs utilizing trauma informed approaches.
Care Coordination:

• Function effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary, integrated medical and psychiatric health care team. Provide consultation to staff across role groups to help support understanding and effective intervention with patients.  o Work collaboratively with patients and Bridge…