Social Worker LSW

Summary

Manages the care of a specific group of adult patients providing behavioral health care within BMG 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: Masters in Social Work

Minimum: Bachelors in Social Work

Experience

Minimum: 3 years' experience in working in a hospital as a social worker or 5 years' experience as a clinical social worker

Licensure, Registration, Certification

Minimum: LSW

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: 16890 - Social Worker LSW
Facility: BMG-Corporate
Department: MG Clinical Services Corporate
Category: Social Services
Type: Clinical
Work Type: Full Time
Work Schedule: Days
Location: US:TN:Memphis
Located in the Memphis metro area