Bilingual-Spanish Social Worker / Clinician
Listed compensation
$68K–$73K
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
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Job Description
This position offers a salary range of $68,000 to $73,000. Actual pay will be based on relevant skills, qualifications, and experience.
Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity working with the pediatric population (children birth to 3 years)? Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of families? Thom Child & Family Services located in Waltham, MA is seeking a Social Worker - LCSW or LICSW to join their team.
As an Early Intervention Social Worker / Clinician, you will be responsible for providing home and community-based early intervention services to infants and toddlers who have or are at risk for developmental delays and their families in both their homes and community settings.
You will partner with parents/caregivers to ensure service delivery is individualized, meaningful for the family, and grounded in evidence-based practice. Through this collaborative process, you ensure families’ priorities, needs, culture, and values are prioritized.
This position may offer opportunities to receive clinical supervision hours toward LICSW licensure for eligible LCSWs, depending on program needs and supervisor availability.
Thom Child & Family Services offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to:
- Flexible Schedules: FT, PT, Per Diem, and family hours
- Health and Dental Insurance, including Fitness Benefits and Wellness Incentive Program.
- Generous vacation
- Personal time
- Sick time (80 – 96 hours every year)
- Paid holiday (10-12 paid holidays)
- 403(b) with employer matching
- Section 125 flexible benefits plan (Medical and dependent care)
- Employer-sponsored Long-term disability insurance.
- Employer-sponsored Life Insurance
- Employer-sponsored Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
- Productivity Bonus Plan
- Continuing education leave and paid conference fees.
- Paid professional license renewal fees.
- Clinical supervision, mentoring, and team support.
- Mileage reimbursement
Other Optional Benefits
1. Short-term Disability Insurance
2. Accident Insurance
3. Cancer Insurance
Position Responsibilities
- Participate in multidisciplinary team assessments of client’s developmental status.
- Provide direct child development services and activities developmentally appropriate for children 0-3 and their families.
- Participate in the development of Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) with responsibility for identifying goals, objectives, and strategies related to the child’s development.
- Complete progress notes, reports, assessments, and correspondence as appropriate
- Provides individual and group intervention for infants and toddlers from birth to three years old who have developmental delays or who are at risk for delays in the areas of cognitive, adaptive behavior, social-emotional, self-care, fine motor, gross motor, and communication development.
- Assess family and child strengths/resources, concerns, and progress.
- Act as service coordinator for the family by scheduling, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the intervention plan for each family on caseload, ensuring that appropriate procedures and timelines are followed.
- Provides supportive professional assistance to families.
- Facilitate parent-child interactions to encourage child's development; assist families to act as advocates for their child.
Position Requirements
- Master's Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work AND Certified or Licensed Social Worker (LCSW, LICSW) required.
- Fluency in Spanish language required
- Experience with infants, toddlers and families is preferred
- Knowledge of family systems and early childhood development.
- Ability to engage in meaningful, therapeutic relationships with children, parents/caregivers, and community partners.
- Commitment to delivering individualized and culturally humble services.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
- Abide by all confidentiality and professional boundaries standards.
- Good computer skills as well as strong documentation skills.
- Current driver’s license and reliable transportation.
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Thom Child and Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, familial status, domestic violence status, or any other status protected by law.
Key Responsibilities
Provide home and community-based early intervention services to infants and toddlers with developmental delays and their families. Coordinate service delivery through the development and implementation of Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP) while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
Requirements
Requires a Master's Degree in Social Work and a valid LCSW or LICSW license, along with fluency in Spanish. Candidates must possess a valid driver's license and reliable transportation to visit clients in the community.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Bilingual-Spanish Social Worker / Clinician at Douglas-A-Thom Clinic a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Social Work — ranked against 6,494 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc.
Social Worker Career Context
Douglas-A-Thom Clinic ranks #16 of 18 employers hiring Social Worker on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay.
Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 30% have no call, 76% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$71k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $67k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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