Description
Job details
- Employment: Full-time, 40 hours/week
- Shift: Day
- Category: Behavioral Health
- FLSA: Exempt
- Address: Mount Auburn Hospital, 330 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
- Req ID: JR98032
- Contact us: Chad Gagnon, Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist, cgagnon2@bilh.org
**Qualified candidates are eligible for a sign-on bonus**
Join Mount Auburn Hospital, a member of Beth Israel Lahey Health
Located in Cambridge, just steps from Harvard Square and the Charles River, Mount Auburn Hospital is a 217-bed academic community hospital that combines clinical excellence with a strong sense of community. As a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, we provide top-level care across a wide range of specialties, including nationally recognized Maternity Care, Cardiac Care, and Cancer Care programs known for clinical excellence. We offer the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment where learning, teamwork, and high quality care come together.
With continued growth and recent investments across the organization, Mount Auburn Hospital is evolving to meet the future of healthcare while creating meaningful opportunities for career development and advancement.
Our Commitment to You
- Collaborative, team-based care environments where your voice, contributions, and relationships with patients, providers, and colleagues are valued
- Opportunities to care for a diverse patient population and make an impact within the organization and the communities we serve
- The ability to explore new specialties, settings, and long-term career pathways
- Thoughtful onboarding, hands-on training, and mentorship designed to help you feel confident from day one
- Tuition reimbursement, continuing education support, and career development opportunities
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits starting on day one
- Generous paid time off and retirement savings programs that support your wellbeing and future goals
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Patients receive thorough, effective clinical social work services that ensure psychosocial support, continuity of care, and address the unique needs of each patient and family. As a core member of the care team, the social worker effectively collaborates with a variety of disciplines in promoting optimal biopsychosocial care of the patient and families.
Fundamentals of Job:
- Provides clinical consultations, psychosocial evaluations, and clinical interventions primarily in inpatient units and selected ambulatory settings, promptly, in compliance with departmental standards.
- Consults/assists with complicated medical diagnoses; complicated social issues; protective issues; legal/ethical concerns; financial concerns; and works with the health care team in facilitating discharge processes complicated by social determinants of health challenges.
- Provides education to other disciplines regarding the factors that present barriers to patients fully engaging in health care treatment. Understanding the impact of social determinants of health is essential to the social work focus on the person in the context of their environment.
- Contacts collateral agencies and family members to complete social work assessments as appropriate.
- Provides supportive therapy for patients and families relating to illness and/or hospitalization. Provides end-of-life counseling and support.
- Guides patients/families through hospital services, accessing needed health and community services, as indicated. May assist with discharge planning and referral to community services in complex cases.
- May participate in the training of social work students and trainees from other disciplines, in accordance with the hospital's commitment to train future health care professionals.
Professional Engagement:
- Actively participates in multidisciplinary rounds and case conferences.
- Establishes themselves as an integral part of the team and is present each day on the units to which assigned.
- Develops and continually renews collaborative relationships & communications with their health care teams.
- Participates in the weekend on-call program, coming in as needed for ED and inpatient consultation/intervention.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's degree in social work from an accredited school.
- A minimum of one year of experience in a health/mental health setting is required.
- LICSW
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams.
- Ability to exercise sound clinical judgment in fast-paced and demanding settings.
Pay Range:
$85,280.00 USD – $110,323.00 USD
The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
