Social Work Supervisor, 40 Hours Days, Cross Campus Coverage: University, Memorial, and Marlborough Campuses

Are you an internal caregiver, student, or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health? CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account. Exemption Status: Exempt Hiring Range: $75,379.20 - $135,699.20 Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations . Schedule Details: Monday through Friday Scheduled Hours: 8a-430p Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America) Hours: 40 Cost Center: 10030 - 4400 Social Services This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process. Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day. Performs a variety of supervisory, program management, education, and clinical activities in the Social Work department. I. Major Responsibilities: 1. Oversees daily operations in the Social Work department. Assures clinical caseload assigned equitably amongst staff. Coordinates and assigns staff schedules, assuring daily operational needs are met. 2. Leads Performance Improvement Initiatives, identifying opportunities for improvement, assuring compliance to standards and patient/customer satisfaction. Develop Social Work onboarding initiatives as well as strengthen partnerships with Universities that have MSW programs to build out pathways for field placements and pipeline for Social Work growth. Prepares and presents reports as directed. Acts as team leader, facilitator or member for own clinical areas and interdisciplinary initiatives as assigned. 3. Assures that own clinical divisions comply with departmental policies and meet accreditation, regulatory and quality standards for clinical care delivery and documentation. Evaluates existing programs and identifies improvement opportunities to assure high quality and cost-effective practice. Collaborates with Social Work and Social Work Management to ensure Social Work practice is consistent with clinical practice where appropriate. 4. Create and build educational programs for Social Work Department, including continuing education and applying for applicable credits, creating an onboarding process and ensuring compliance with all annual requirements such as FIT testing, licenses, and other necessary certifications. 5. Performs clinical care, including patient evaluation, treatment, discharge planning and interdisci-plinary care coordination in Social Work Department. Completes clinical documentation and other activities as described in staff job descriptions. Standard Supervisor Level Responsibilities: 1. Supervises assigned personnel including performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training. Makes recommendations on employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and similar actions. Resolves grievances and other personnel problems within position responsibilities. 2. Coordinates the assignment of tasks and helps resolve technical and operational problems. Evaluates the impact of solutions to ensure goals are achieved. 3. Provides effective direction, guidance, and leadership over the staff for effective teamwork and motivation and fosters the effective integration of efforts with system-wide initiatives. 4. Encourages and supports diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, respect, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients, and visitors. 5. Integrates diversity into departmental objectives, such as hiring, promotions, training, vendor selections, etc. 6. Participates in performance improvement initiatives and demonstrates the use of quality improvement in daily operations. 7. Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, DPH (Department of Public Health) (Department of Public Health), etc. Develops and maintains procedures necessary to meet regulatory requirements. 8. Ensures that department complies with hospital established policies, quality assurance programs, safety, and infection control policies and procedures. 9. Ensures adequate equipment and supplies for department. 10. Develops and maintains established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives. 11. Ensures compliance with all health and safety regulations and requirements. 12. Performs similar or related duties as required or directed. All responsibilities are essential job functions. II. Position Qualifications: License/Certification/Education: Required: 1. Master’s degree in social work. 2. Current unrestricted license as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Preferred: 1. Experience/Skills: Required: 1. A minimum of 3 years clinical experience in Mental Health Counseling or Social Work, preferably including experience with Medical Social Work. 2. Demonstrated leadership ability. 3. Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with people. 4. Strong communication skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks. 5. Proficiency with Microsoft office products. Preferred: 1. Prior supervisory experience. Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements. Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents. III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions: Work is considered medium. Position requires work indoors in a patient care environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. 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