Austen Riggs Center·Stockbridge, Massachusetts
The Clinical Social Worker provides comprehensive, patient-centered care using a psychodynamic systems approach within an interdisciplinary team. Responsibilities include conducting psychosocial assessments, facilitating family therapy, managing admissions consultations, and coordinating discharge planning.
This position is full time for 6 months. PTO and benefits will be offered in addition to salary.
For over a century, the Austen Riggs Center has been a leading psychiatric hospital and residential treatment center, specializing in the care of adult patients with complex psychiatric conditions in a fully open and voluntary setting. Our patients come from across the country and internationally. As a vital member of the medical staff and interdisciplinary team at the Austen Riggs Center, the Clinical Social Worker provides comprehensive, patient-centered care through a psychodynamic systems approach. This approach emphasizes understanding underlying issues and making meaning of patients’ struggles within their three-generation family history and their broader psychosocial context, rather than solely focusing on symptom reduction.
We are seeking a Clinical Social Worker to participate in admissions consultations, conduct patient and family psychosocial assessments, provide family consultation, patient-centered family meetings, family therapy, and dynamic casework services, including discharge planning. Beyond providing direct clinical care, social workers are immersed in an intellectually stimulating environment that values and promotes their ongoing professional development. They benefit from clinical supervision and peer consultation, as well as numerous opportunities to expand their expertise—whether through group work, interdisciplinary committees, research, conference presentations, writing for publication, or attending seminars.
While flexibility is at times necessary to accommodate patient and family needs, the primary work schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Market context
In Massachusetts, behavioral health employers often look for licensed or license-eligible clinicians with experience supporting at-risk youth and families, so demand tends to stay steady for candidates who can work across settings and age groups. These roles can be competitive because employers usually want a master’s degree, a clear licensure path, and practical experience; review the summarized requirements and benefits here, which are AI-summarized from the original job description to save research time, then confirm your licensure status and tailor your application to youth and family work.