Social Worker - Weekend Option - Day Shift - Case Management

CoxHealth • Springfield, MO

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Social Worker provides supportive advocacy to patients and their families as part of an interdisciplinary health care team. The role helps overcome barriers to progression of care and facilitates safe, coordinated discharge to the community. Services may address parenting issues, substance abuse, stress management, adjustment to illness, trauma and bereavement, geriatric depression, and other mental health or emotional difficulties that impede progression of care.

This is a weekend-option, day-shift position in Case Management South at CoxHealth South in Springfield, Missouri. The scheduled hours are 32 per week: Friday 8:00–16:30 and Saturday and Sunday 06:30–19:00.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make decisions semi-independently.
• Ability to maintain organization in a changing environment.
• Initiative, responsibility, and flexibility.
• Ability to initiate and understand research related to projects.
• Ability to learn and appropriately use required computer applications, including email and Windows-based or Microsoft programs.
• Ability to write effective documentation for processes and procedures.
• Ability to make routine decisions in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
• Appropriate assessment skills.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Social Work.
• Recent work experience in health care.
• License in Social Work.
• Eligibility to sit for and successfully pass the certification test for Certified Case Manager (CCM) or Accredited Care Manager (ACM).

Responsibilities

• Provide supportive advocacy to patients and their families as part of an interdisciplinary health care team.
• Help patients overcome barriers to progression of care.
• Facilitate safe and coordinated discharge to the community.
• Provide services addressing concerns such as parenting, substance abuse, stress management, adjustment to illness, trauma, bereavement, geriatric depression, and other mental health or emotional difficulties that impede progression of care.

Benefits

• Medical insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Retirement with employer match.
• Up to $1 certification pay for qualified candidates.
• $7 weekend-option differential.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level