Clinical Social Worker/LICSW

About this role

If you are an existing employee of South Shore Health then please apply through the internal career site. Requisition Number:

R-22516

Facility: LOC0026 - 101 Columbian Street101 Columbian Street
Weymouth, MA 02190


Department Name:

SSH Medical Oncology Cancer Center

Status:

Full time

Budgeted Hours:

40

Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Provides clinical psychosocial intervention, including crisis intervention, individual, couples and family counseling, support groups, and short-term bereavement therapy. Coordinates patient care through the continuum, facilitating the achievement of optimal quality outcomes in relation to clinical care and cost-effectiveness. Collaborates with multidisciplinary team of oncologist, APP, Oncology Nurse Navigator, primary infusion RN, surgeons, radiation oncologists, resource navigators and collaterals to achieve optimal patient care from pre-diagnosis through treatment, survivorship and/or end of life. This is for all disease groups.

Provides for the coordination of services to patients/families in the Cancer Center including connection with internal and external resources.

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.)

Assumes responsibility for attending to patients with complex psychosocial risk (domestic violence, protective services, frail elderly, disabled, substance abuse, etc.). Assesses adaptation of families to patients' illnesses, provides crisis intervention, short-term therapy as needed and engage support persons as needed.  

Compensation Pay Range: $87,000.00 - $127,000.00  

Job Responsibilities: 1 - 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.

2 - Provides social work intervention to assist patients/families: Responsible for evidence-based facilitation or patient and/or family and/or caregiver support programs or groups area. Demonstrates ability to form empathic relationships with patients/families who have significant emotional adjustment issues.  Demonstrates ability to use self in differential, therapeutic ways to address patient/family concerns, problems, issues to achieve optimal functioning.  Maintains working knowledge base of techniques for individual, couples, family and group counseling.  Assesses adaption of families and caregivers to patient's illness and ensures maximum participation of patients/families/caregivers in the continuum of care process. Responsible for facilitating complex serious illness and goals of care conversations to ensure shared treatment decision-making and effective patient-physician communication.

3 - Provides 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.

4 - 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.

5 - Completes appropriate evidence-based assessments including Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, PHQ-9, and GAD-7 for each patient so as to inform appropriate and clinical response.

6 - Assumes responsibility/leadership as needed: Ability to cover for supervisory personnel as needed.  Ability to make reasoned decisions and provide organization and leadership as needed.

7 - Assists health care team to integrate psychosocial factors: Ability to analyze significant psychological, physical, emotional, social, economic issues of patients/families and to effectively communicate the relevance of such to other health care providers.  Ability to identify, analyze and suggest intervention for difficult patient/family management situations. Communicates clinical assessment and recommendations and provides consultation and support to interdisciplinary health care team. Initiates collaboration with interdisciplinary team to manage psychosocial barriers that limit patients’/families’/caregivers’ ability to access and/or engage in recommended medical care.

8 - Provides education/consultation regarding impact of cancer on patients and families/caregivers to community, and provides consultation, education, and program development (e.g., support groups, psychoeducational forums, etc.) within the disease-based or service-based team and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. Education also includes offering facilitation of palliative care and hospice transitions

9 - Responsible for evidence-based facilitation of patient and/or family and/or caregiver support programs or groups area.

10 - Serves as liaison and collaborates with range of community and governmental agencies and resources: Maintains current knowledge of community and governmental resources.  Ability to advocate for and obtain access to resources for patients/families.  Ability to identify deficits in resources and to advocate for new resources.

11 - Communicate and collaborate with inpatient Palliative Care Team at South Shore Hospital including warm handoffs, intervention assistance, and continuing patient and family support.

12 - Demonstrates commitment to continuous improvement by seeking ways of improving

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