Social Work Fellow, MSW, Psychiatry

82197BR

Patient Services-Social Work

Position Summary/Department Summary:
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services is offering a full-time social work fellowship providing a solid, broad-based training opportunity for child and adolescent mental health. The fellowship offers intensive supervision by senior staff as well as participation in numerous social work and multidisciplinary trainings, and seminars. These include Psychotherapy Seminar, Social Work Didactic Seminar, Child Protection Seminar, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, and Psychiatry Morbidity and Mortality Conference, among others. Clinical work will be in Outpatient and Emergency Psychiatry. The fellowship runs from now through August 2026.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides clinical social work services in accordance with established professional, programmatic, and departmental standards and treatment models.
• Directs care of patients and families across settings may include evaluation, crisis intervention, treatment planning, long and short-term care, case management, individual, family and group treatment and/or care.
• Participates in didactic seminars and trainings and receives rigorous supervision and mentorship.
• Effectively participates in departmental meetings, committees, work groups as needed or assigned. Prepares accurate, thorough, and timely documentation including patient encounter documentation, record keeping and reporting in conformance with hospital and departmental standards
• One full day per week, the Fellow will work in the Emergency Psychiatry Services Department , learning emergency assessments and crisis intervention.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s degree in social work

Experience:

• Strong clinical skills and experience with various therapeutic modalities.
• Previous medical/hospital social work exposure ideal
• People from diverse backgrounds encouraged to apply
• Spanish language skills are a plus

Licensure/Certifications:

• LCSW in the state of MA required

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.

Full-Time

Regular

40

Brookline

Social Services

Onsite Only