Job Description

Description

Why Youll Love Working Here: .

• Future Security 401(k) with employer matching to help you build long-term financial stability.

Role: Licensed Master Social Worker

Location: Merit Health- Rankin- Brandon MS

Schedule: PRN- Day Shift- covering LOAs & weekends aas needed

Job Summary

The Social Worker MSW provides clinical social work services to patients and families to support optimal functioning adjustment and decision-making throughout the healthcare continuum. This role performs psychosocial assessments offers counseling and emotional support assists with care coordination and discharge planning and connects patients to community and financial resources. The Social Worker collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to address barriers to care and contribute to safe efficient transitions.

Essential Functions

• Conducts age-appropriate psychosocial assessments for neonatal pediatric adolescent adult and geriatric patients to evaluate emotional social and financial needs.
• Provides counseling support and resource education to help patients and families cope with illness injury disability loss or life transitions.
• Participates in interdisciplinary discharge planning by identifying psychosocial barriers coordinating post-acute care services and assisting with transitions to skilled nursing rehabilitation or home care.
• Facilitates referrals to internal and external services including mental health providers social service agencies support groups and financial assistance programs.
• Manages high-risk referrals and complex psychosocial cases including new diagnoses suspected abuse or neglect adoption planning behavioral health needs and end-of-life care.
• Provides crisis intervention and support for patients and families experiencing acute emotional distress grief or trauma.
• Collaborates with physicians nurses case managers and other disciplines to support care planning continuity of care and safe discharge.
• Participates in quality improvement efforts including readmission reduction initiatives and psychosocial outcomes tracking.
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation in the medical record according to regulatory and organizational standards.
• Serves as a resource for peers and may assist in mentoring or guiding other social workers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW) from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) required
• 2-4 years of clinical social work experience in a healthcare setting preferred

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of social work principles case management practices and psychosocial assessment methods.
• Strong clinical judgment and counseling skills to support patients and families in complex and emotionally charged situations.
• Familiarity with healthcare systems post-acute services and community-based resources.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including documentation in electronic medical records.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced interdisciplinary environment.
• Demonstrates empathy cultural competence and sensitivity to diverse populations.
• Ability to prioritize tasks manage a caseload and adapt to changing patient needs.

Licenses and Certifications

• LMSW - Licensed Medical Social Worker - State Licensure required
• BCLS - Basic Life Support required

INDBH

Job Tags

Part time, Work experience placement, Relief, Day shift

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