Social Worker- Primary Care- West Roxbury​/Hyde Park

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SOCIAL WORKER - LICSW REQUIRED / PRIMARY CARE

FULL TIME / 40 HOURS /

BWH FAULKNER COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS

LOCATED IN TWO SITES: WEST ROXBURY AND HYDE PARK

HYBRID WORK SCHEDULE AVAILABLE:
This position is hybrid, with one day in West Roxbury, one day in Hyde Park and three remote/virtual.

Starting rate: $92,227

SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE for eligible Non-MGB employees: $10,000

The Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) is a key member of the interdisciplinary team who provides and oversees the provision of behavioral health and psychosocial care for patients and families who receive their medical care in one of the BWH primary care practices. The social worker will engage collaboratively with patients, families and the interdisciplinary healthcare team to address psychosocial barriers to care, lead efforts around management of psychiatric disorders for the team's patients, and coach patients and families with options and support for change, to maximize their overall physical/behavioral health.

The Clinical Social worker conducts bio-psychosocial assessments, provides intervention and treatment (therapy) as indicated. Identifies high risk psychosocial factors of patients/families that impacts their ability to make change and helps other providers/interdisciplinary team members understand the influence of those factors upon the course of their care. Provides clinical services to patients/families that address psychosocial, environmental, age-specific and cultural issues to maximize emotional, social and physical wellbeing and the effective use of health care and community resources.

Collaborates with and provides clinical support to other programs to optimize patient wellbeing.

Social Workers provide clinical care in the primary care setting in a hybrid model (days in the office and working off site)

This is a hybrid position with one day in West Roxbury, one day in Hyde Park and three remote.

The Social Worker in Primary Care works M-F 8:30-5 allowing for some flexibility.

Must be prepared to come in to work if needed in a crisis.

Clinical Practice:

Psychosocial/Behavioral Health

• Provide collaborative assessment, triage, stabilization and brief interventions around acute psychosocial/behavioral health issues that impact patients/families functioning and overall health
• Provide Short- and long-term therapy to patients who want to engage in ongoing clinical interventions to help promote change and improvement in patients overall rating of their mood and life circumstances.
• Participate in established billing practices while adhering to established guidelines
• Provide recommendation and coordination of external and/or urgent psychiatric/social resources based on assessment and collaboration with patient/family.
• Provides risk assessment and intervention in conjunction as part of the interdisciplinary team with emphasis on harm reduction, and when necessary emergency services, and coordination with appropriate resources.
• Provide a care management approach around psychosocial/behavioral health needs using an evidence-based collaborative care management approach.
• Providers behavioral health leadership in practice
• Provide appropriate modality for patient self-reported improvement in their mood as evidenced by regular PHQ-9, GAD7 and other evidence-based tools.
• Participates in formal and informal clinical case reviews, clinical supervision, educational seminars and research projects.

Health Behavior

• Provide clinical assessment with patients around behavioral health symptoms that are impacting daily functioning.
• Provide health behavior interventions that include, but not limited to, health action plans, utilizing change interventions; motivational techniques and problem solving that addresses obstacles to goals, and supports and increases patients and their family's self-efficacy of health behaviors

Care Coordination

• Provide follow-up and intervention with…