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Social Worker - Perinatal

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Organization Facility: Mount Auburn Hospital Category: Social Services Job ID: JR65613 Date posted: 12/09/2024
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Job Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

SOCIAL WORKER, MSW

Clinical focus for this position will be on Perinatal Mental Health. Clinician will deliver care to pregnant and postpartum patients. Social worker will provide inpatient support on Labor & Delivery, Postpartum units at hospital, and Level II Nursery. Clinician will work closely with nursing, CNM, OBGYN providers, and pediatricians. Supervision provided by experienced perinatal LICSW. PMH-C certification a plus!

Clinician will provide screenings, assessments, and local resources for families of diverse backgrounds including high risk and immigrant populations.
Emotional and psychoeducational support for new parents.

Job Description:

Job Profile Summary

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.

Job Description

Fundamentals of Job:

  • Provides clinical consultations and psychosocial evaluations and clinical interventions in primarily inpatient units and selected ambulatory settings, in a timely manner, 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 re: the factors that present barriers to patient 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 her/himself 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.

Job Requirements

2 years’ experience preferred but not required.

MSW degree is required; The new hire must be willing to get LCSW within 90 days of employment.

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) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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

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