Clinical Social Worker

4 days ago


Boston, United States Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Full time

Exciting and challenging opportunity as a dedicated ambulatory social worker providing clinical social work services to adult patients and their families at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Longwood location. As a member of the multidisciplinary oncology team, the Clinical Social Worker provides patient and family centered care through clinical psychosocial assessment and intervention, including crisis response, individual, couples, family and group interventions, and short-term bereavement support.

This is a full-time, 40 hour per week position. As a hybrid role the schedule is 3 days on-site coverage/2 days remote at Longwood Medical Center.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

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.
* Assesses adaptation of families and caregivers to patient's illness and ensures maximum participation of patients/families/caregivers in the continuum of care process.
* 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; 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.)
* Initiates collaboration with interdisciplinary team to manage psychosocial barriers that limit patients'/families'/caregivers' ability to access and/or engage in recommended medical care.

Master's Degree in Social Work from accredited program
* Minimum Experience for LCSW: 1-year MSW internship experience in social work practice.

Minimum Experience for LICSW: 2 years social work practice as an LCSW; health care setting preferred.
* Bilingual English/Spanish preferred

Knowledge of interdisciplinary teamwork and team dynamics, scope of key partnerships and interprofessional roles.
* including but not limited to diversity in gender identity, age, culture, race, religion, socioeconomic status, abilities, and sexual orientation.
* Adheres to Social Work Division practice and administrative standards and policies (e.g., HIPAA, high-risk sign out, scheduling).

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.  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 characteristics protected by law.



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