"Clinical Social Worker, FBCI, Boston"

Position Summary/Department Summary

Family Based Crisis Intervention (FBCI) is a short intervention developed at Boston Children's to avoid the need for psychiatric hospitalization. Originally designed for emergency departments, FBCI stabilizes suicidal adolescents and gives them and their families training and tools to safely manage crises at home. We are currently seeking an experienced full-time social worker to join our team!

Key Responsibilities

• Providing clinical social work services to assist patients and families with personal, family, medical and environmental difficulties.
• Performing psychosocial and risk assessments, assigning diagnoses and developing and implementing interventions and treatment plans.
• Participating in planning and implementation of discharge and outpatient service plans and collaborating with health care team and community agencies to plan, implement and follow up on treatment and provision of needed services.
• Developing training materials for evidence-based intervention for youth at risk for suicide
• Training staff in evidence-based interventions for suicide prevention

Minimum Qualifications

Education

• Master's degree in social work

Experience

• Flexibility and ability to work in a fast-paced multidisciplinary team environment as well as excellent communication skills
• Experience with social services agencies, understanding of social determinants of health, family crisis intervention and trauma ideal.
• Experience with training development and implementation ideal.
• Bilingual/bicultural/diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. Spanish speaking a plus!

Licensure/Certifications

• LICSW in the state of Massachusetts

This position is M-F, 1PM -9:30PM

New hires are eligible for a $5,000 sign on bonus

Boston Children's Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits, including flexible schedules, affordable health, vision, and dental insurance, childcare and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and specific License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.