MSW Internship
Location: On Site 5 Days/wk within 30min of New Lenox, IL
Job Type: Full time - 40hrs/wk (June 15 - Aug 14, 2026)
Job Reports To: LCSW
Salary Range: $30-$35/hr
About Jaan Health/Phamily
Jaan Health is a leading AI-based care management company serving healthcare providers. For nearly a decade, the company has leveraged its easy-to-use, proprietary technology to enable health systems, medical groups, and ACOs to deliver high-quality, high-ROI proactive care to hundreds of thousands of previously underserved patients.
Phamily, the company's core technology platform, has transformed chronic disease management with clinically tested AI and easy-to-use technology that enables physicians and care teams to offer high-touch, individualized patient care that has been proven to reduce investment in extra labor and the overall cost of care. Phamily helps ensure healthcare providers are compensated fairly for providing high-quality care between office visits, while improving the lives of patients with chronic diseases. Learn more at phamily.com.
Job/Role Description:
We believe internships should provide meaningful, hands-on learning experiences that contribute to real business outcomes. Our internship program is designed to give you exposure to a high-growth, fast-paced environment where you can learn, contribute, and develop professionally. This program is intended to help interns build practical experience, strengthen business acumen, and better understand how your work contributes to organizational impact.
The Impact You Will Make
As a Clinical MSW Intern, you will play a direct role in building something new from the ground up. Working alongside Phamily's Lead LCSW, you will assist in developing and launching a brand-new Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) program for Silver Cross Medical Group. Your work will bridge the gap between physical medicine and mental health, offering patients a safe space to explore their mental health concerns—from the immediate stress of a medical diagnosis, life transitions, caregiver stress, and more. By delivering patient-centered, short-term brief therapy, you will empower patients to achieve personalized and actionable goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Co-Develop a New BHI Program: Partner directly with Phamily's Lead LCSW to design workflows, build resource networks, and establish clinical processes for the new Silver Cross Medical Group behavioral health initiative.
- Drive Patient Enrollment, Health Care Access, and Equity: Play an instrumental role in growing patient enrollment into Phamily's Care Management services by delivering highly requested social work support to primary care practices, with a specific focus on serving and empowering historically marginalized communities.
- Conduct Assessments: Meet with patients face-to-face in-office or via telehealth to complete comprehensive Bio-Psycho-Social Assessments and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) screenings.
- Provide Evidence-Based Brief Therapy: Deliver client-centered, short-term brief therapy focused on immediate, actionable goals—tailoring sessions to what the patient wants to address using modalities like Motivational Interviewing (MI), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
- Support Care Management Escalations: Act as a specialized resource for the broader Care Management team; step in to support patients when complex behavioral health or mental health needs arise that fall outside the traditional care managers' scope.
- Mobilize Community Resources: Identify patient barriers and directly connect them to valuable, relevant community resources to support their overall well-being.
- Manage Digital Workflows: Leverage Phamily's purpose-built care management platform to document clinical data, track patient progress, and streamline communication between primary care providers and the BHI team.
- Engage in Clinical Supervision: Receive structured, weekly 1-on-1 clinical supervision from an LCSW with 15 years of diverse medical social work experience spanning individual therapy, hospitals, hospice, and long-term care.
Requirements:
- Current MSW Student: Actively enrolled in an accredited Master of Social Work (MSW) program, tracking toward a clinical or micro-practice concentration.
- Interest in Program Development & Collaboration: Excited by the opportunity to help build a clinical program from scratch, engage in research and development, and act as a reliable peer-consultant for care managers.
- Tech-Forward Mindset: Comfortable learning and navigating digital health platforms, collaborating synchronously and asynchronously via Slack/Zoom, and conducting virtual patient care. Interest in healthcare, AI, or technology-driven business.
- Empathy & Communication: Strong active listening and clinical boundary skills, with a deep passion for whole-person health, community advocacy, and supporting diverse patient populations.
- Adaptability: Energized by a hybrid work structure that seamlessly combines on-site collaboration and in-person patient interaction with remote care capabilities. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Preferred requirements:
- Entrepreneurial DNA: A 'builder' mentality with the ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments where processes may not be fully fleshed out.
- Bi-Lingual in English and Spanish.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated leadership, initiative, and collaboration skills
Work style:
We are a fast-growing, early-stage company with a bold mission and significant work ahead; every employee at Jaan Health must embody growth company DNA. This means you have proven success in a high-performing environment: high velocity, strong ownership, comfort with ambiguity, resilience, and a true growth mindset.
You are both a playbook builder and executor, able to design scalable approaches for today while anticipating what the business will need tomorrow, and then follow through to deliver results.
Our culture is built on five principles that shape how we work, lead, and grow:
- Care: We put patients, clients, teammates, and outcomes first.
- Curiosity: We ask better questions, challenge assumptions, and keep learning.
- Clarity: We simplify complexity, communicate directly, and create alignment.
- Co-Creation: We collaborate across teams, perspectives, and disciplines.
- Craftsmanship: We execute with excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Gain:
Through this internship, you will gain:
- Real-world experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Exposure to executive leaders and cross-functional teams
- Mentorship and professional development support
- Experience solving real business challenges
- Stronger communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Opportunity to build confidence, ownership, and business acumen
- A collaborative, mission-driven team helping transform healthcare at scale
If you take pride in delivering results, embrace challenges, and proactively seek improvement, then this is the place for you. You'll join a smart, humble, and collaborative team dedicated to improving healthcare.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Phamily is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected status.
