Geriatric Social Worker

## Geriatric Social Worker Apply remote type:
Hybrid locations:
Somerville-MA:
Natick-MA:
Framingham-MA:
Newton-MA:
Brookline-MAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
RQ4067792

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Mass General Brigham Community Physicians, Inc.

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** Job Summary
** This is an exciting opportunity to join the Mass General Brigham Population Health department as a Social Worker within the GRACE (Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders) program. The GRACE Social Worker will provide home-based geriatric assessment and care management for older adults aligned with Mass General Brigham’s Primary Care Providers. This role is designed to proactively support vulnerable older adults, ensuring comprehensive, coordinated care that aligns with their goals and preferences.  

As part of this initiative, the GRACE Social Worker will play a key role in:
1. Conducting in-home geriatric assessments in collaboration with a GRACE Nurse Practitioner.  
2. Developing and implementing individualized care plans using GRACE care protocols.  
3. Engaging patients and caregivers in psychosocial support, health education, and goals-of-care discussions.  
4. Coordinating care with primary care providers and the GRACE interdisciplinary team to optimize outcomes and reduce unnecessary hospital utilization.
This role is an essential part of Mass General Brigham’s commitment to improving care delivery for high-risk older adults through proactive, patient-centered management. The GRACE Social Worker will build strong, lasting relationships with patients—offering culturally responsive care, continuity, and education to help manage complex social and health conditions and promote maximum functioning.  We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Social Worker with weekly schedules consisting of 36 hours of clinical, patient-facing time, and 4 hours of administrative time.

This will be a hybrid role with the expectation that the Social Worker will conduct home visits in the Boston/Boston Metro West area up to 2 days per week and work remotely for the remainder of the week.
Key components of GRACE Team Care include:
- In-home assessments by a nurse practitioner and social worker team.  - Individualized care plans developed using GRACE protocols.  - Collaborative care planning with primary care physicians.  - Ongoing home-based care management and coordination.  - Weekly interdisciplinary team meetings including a geriatrician, pharmacist, and mental health liaison.
As an independent practitioner of social work, the GRACE Social Worker evaluates psychosocial needs and applies social work interventions with a high degree of autonomy, exercising independent judgment and initiative in carrying out social work functions and in applying social work values and ethics to complex situations.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Screening/Assessment
- The GRACE Social Worker will provide initial and ongoing assessment of an individual’s psychosocial needs. The social worker will obtain relevant health, social, and financial information from the individual and their caregiver if applicable. The GRACE Social Worker’s assessment should include a depression screen, cognitive impairment screen, review of financial status and health care benefits, home safety evaluation, review of social supports, and assessment of caregiver burden.

The goal of the in-home assessment is to highlight the individual’s strengths, limitations, and internal/external supports and service needs in order to optimize the individual’s functional status and safely maintain the older adult in his/her home.
2. Treatment Planning/Goal Setting
- It is the responsibility of the GRACE Social Worker, working with the GRACE…