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Pediatric Clinical Social Worker/Community Liaison Program Specialist - Jimmy Fund Clinic
Job Description
- Job ID:
- 33737
- Location:
- 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215
- Category:
- Social Work
- Employment Type:
- Full time
- Work Location:
- PTL Remote: 2-3 days remote/wk
Overview
Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
Responsibilities
Pediatric Clinical Social Worker/Community Liaison Program Specialist - Jimmy Fund Clinic
LCSW or LICSW Required; LICSW strongly preferred
Exciting and challenging opportunity as a dedicated ambulatory pediatric social worker providing psychosocial evaluation and treatment to patients and their families in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
Excellent opportunity for a clinical social worker with prior pediatric experience. Position calls for psychosocial assessment and intervention, crisis intervention, consultation, and ability to work collaboratively as an active member of a multidisciplinary team.
This ambulatory social work role provides in-person and telehealth services to patients and families (i.e., phone/Zoom video); modalities include individual, family, and group work. Candidate must be able to thrive in a fast paced, complex, academic medical environment where the social worker is a key, valued member of the multi-disciplinary medical team.
This role is 50% clinical work and 50% programmatic work as a Community Liaison Program Specialist. As a Community Liaison Program Specialist, the social worker will triage and coordinate community-based psychosocial services for patients and families within the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology service including on-treatment patients and in the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Survivorship Clinic. This role will develop project plans to address patient-level and systems-level psychosocial care gaps and actively participates in program meetings with commitment to continuous quality improvement.
This is an opportunity to contribute to social work practice in a pediatric service that combines compassionate care with a commitment to be on the forefront of developing new and more effective cancer and blood disorder treatments.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Social Work from accredited program
- Massachusetts license (LCSW or LICSW; LICSW strongly preferred)
- Previous experience in health care setting preferred
- One-year previous program or project experience required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Ability to respond to psychosocial needs and concerns across a broad spectrum of ages within the patient population
- Strong patient engagement and clinical assessment skills
- Crisis intervention and treatment skills
- Interdisciplinary team collaboration skills
- Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
- Demonstrates understanding of systemic inequities, their impact on patients, families, and the community at large
- Strong organizational skills: ability to triage and determine priorities; tolerance for ambiguity
- Excellent communication, oral and written
- Analytical skills; computer proficiency
- Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility to change
- Demonstrates initiative to achieve goals
- Demonstrates commitment to diversity and equity efforts, including advocacy and self-education to advance knowledge base of the needs and concerns of underserved and marginalized populations
Schedule:
M-F; 40 hours/week
Hybrid schedule 3 days on-site/2 days remote
If interested in this opportunity, please submit a resume and a cover letter detailing your experience, qualifications, and skills for this position.
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are equally committed to diversifying our faculty and staff. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and diverse professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.
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