MSW Social Worker

St. Elizabeth Healthcare•Edgewood, KY

About The Position

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do. We are seeking a Social Worker to support high‑risk patients by coordinating throughput activities, conducting psychosocial assessments, and facilitating timely discharges. This role involves close collaboration with physicians and interdisciplinary teams, patient and family education on post‑acute services, and advocacy for community resources. The Social Worker ensures continuity of care, documents interventions in compliance with departmental policies, and contributes to performance improvement while maintaining professional development.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited masters’ school of social work.
Licensed as an SW to practice social work in the state where work is being performed.
Meets contact hour requirements for licensure, including all state required courses.
Knowledge of psychosocial issues re: health related problems and post-acute care needs.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to coordinate care well with an interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

Provides social work intervention, and proactive discharge planning support to patients and their families.
Provides psycho-social assessment and appropriate input into the plan of care.
Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to ensure timely interventions to support the patient transition to the next level of care at the point they are medically ready to transition.
Works with post-acute care providers to ensure coordinated and timely patient transitions.
Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
supporting high‑risk patients by coordinating throughput activities
conducting psychosocial assessments
facilitating timely discharges
close collaboration with physicians and interdisciplinary teams
patient and family education on post‑acute services
advocacy for community resources
ensures continuity of care
documents interventions in compliance with departmental policies
contributes to performance improvement
maintaining professional development