Social Worker LMSW
Baptist Memorial
Summary
Manages the care of a specific group of adult patients providing behavioral health care within BMG/provider-based hospital clinics. Provides a wide array of social work services, including psychosocial assessments and screenings. Contacts patients to coordinate community resources for identified social determinants of health risk factors. Collaborates with the patient's care team physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals regarding behavioral health and social needs.
Responsibilities
-Utilize social work skills by conducting psychosocial assessments and mental health evaluations.
-Provides supportive and educational counseling and interventions through visits and tele-medicine.
-Provides counseling to individual patients, groups, or families.
-Provides psychotherapy crisis services.
-Consult with physicians on patients' psychosocial assessment.
-Analyzes patients' social determinant of health needs to identify risks.
-Plans educational activities.
-Collaborates with the physician and all members of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate care and assist in meeting goals.
-Maintains current knowledge of and accessibility to community resources, community programs, and financial agencies to meet patient and family needs.
-Completes assigned goals.
-Complies with policies that support patients' fundamental rights to considerate care, protect their personal dignity and respect their cultural, psychosocial and spiritual values in an effort to meet patients' care needs and preferences.
Requirements, Preferences and Experience
Education
Preferred: LCSW
Minimum: Masters of Social Work LMSW- must be licensed per state requirements
Licensure, Registration, Certification
Preferred: CCM;ACM;LMSW
Minimum: LMSW
Special Skills
Minimum: Excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills. Ability to identify and coordinate appropriate resources in the community. Ability to work with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Computer skills.
Training
Preferred: 2 years clinical experience as a social worker in medical/clinical setting
Minimum: LMSW graduate of an accredited school of social work
About Baptist Memorial Health Care
At Baptist, we owe our success to our colleagues, who have both technical expertise and a compassionate attitude. Every day they carry out Christ's three-fold ministry-healing, preaching and teaching. And, we reward their efforts with compensation and benefits packages that are highly competitive in the Mid-South health care community. For two consecutive years, Baptist has won a Best in Benefits award for offering the best benefit plans compared with their peer groups. Winners are chosen based on plan designs, premiums and the results of a Benefits Benchmarking Survey.
At Baptist, We Offer:
+ Competitive salaries
+ Paid vacation/time off
+ Continuing education opportunities
+ Generous retirement plan
+ Health insurance, including dental and vision
+ Sick leave
+ Service awards
+ Free parking
+ Short-term disability
+ Life insurance
+ Health care and dependent care spending accounts
+ Education assistance/continuing education
+ Employee referral program
Job Summary:
Position: 20287 - Social Worker LMSW
Facility: BMH - Baptist Cancer Center Desoto Oncology
Department: NA BCC UC-Desoto Union County
Category: Social Services
Type: Clinical
Work Type: Full Time
Work Schedule: Days
Location: US:MS:Southaven
Located in the Memphis metro area REQNUMBER: 26808
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