Clinical Social Worker - Psych - Child Ambulatory

Location: CHA Cambridge Hospital   

Work Days: 3 day shifts, two shifts 10:30-7pm  

Category: Social Work  

Department: Psych - Child Ambulatory  

Job Type: Full Time  

Work Shift: Day / Evening 

Hours/Week: 40.00 

Union: Yes 

Union Name: Union of Social Workers

Department Description:

This position would be two days in the Macht building and three remote. 

Clinical social workers within the Outpatient Department of Psychiatry are vital members of the multi-disciplinary treatment teams. In collaboration, they provide services to preschool and latency-age children, and adolescents who can derive maximum benefit from outpatient care across the spectrum of programs offered within the department. The diversity of the child/adolescent patient population served in addition to the treatment modalities utilized requires interdisciplinary expertise and collaboration.

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a nationally recognized and award-winning public healthcare system. The Harvard-affiliated CHA Department of Psychiatry is recognized as a leader in patient care, teaching and research. As a leader in behavioral health, CHA's psychiatry teams provide compassionate care to our diverse patient population. CHA consists of an established network of ambulatory clinics, an urgent care site, and two full service hospitals based in Cambridge-Somerville, and Boston's metro-north communities

Summary:

We are seeking full-time, independently licensed Clinical Social Workers to join Child Outpatient Psychiatry. The department is composed of multidisciplinary teams dedicated to the delivery of the best possible care to our diverse client population. We are seeking candidates with strong diagnostic and short-term psychotherapy skills, with expertise in empirically-supported treatments such as DBT, CBT, Behavioral Activation, trauma-informed care, and Motivational Interviewing. Clinical Social Workers within the Outpatient Department of Psychiatry are vital members of our multidisciplinary treatment teams. In collaboration with their teams, they provide services to those individuals, couples, and families who can derive maximum benefit from outpatient care across the spectrum of programs offered within the department. The diversity of the client population served, in addition to the treatment modalities utilized, requires interdisciplinary expertise and collaboration. As a teaching hospital, members of our clinical teams will have an opportunity to teach and supervise trainees, and participate in developing best models of care to treat our patient population. Portuguese, Spanish, or Haitian Kreyol linguistic skill would be a plus. This position will be located in the CHA Child Outpatient Psychiatry Department and is focused on ambulatory service that assesses, stabilizes, and provides treatment to patients from our primary care providers and community.

Qualifications: 

• MSW Current MA licensure as an LICSW (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker) or or LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) who is within 12 months of being eligible to sit for their LICSW. 
• A minimum of 1 year post degree experience, or equivalent, in a fast-paced clinical environment; along with basic computer skills in electronic or online systems for communication, clinical, and administrative tasks. 
• Competitive salary and benefits Supervision towards licensing as an LICSW. 
• Access to educational benefits, including a generous CEU allowance.

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of employment or career development. Furthermore, we will not tolerate the use of discriminatory slurs, or other remarks, jokes or conduct, that in the judgment of CHA, encourage or permit an offensive or hostile work environment.