Social Worker - Case Management

Facility: Cox Medical Center Branson, 525 Branson Landing Blvd., Branson, Missouri, 65616

About the Organization

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, five emergency rooms, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

• Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work five times
• Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group
• Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads
• Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025)

About the Role

Provides supportive advocacy to patients and their families as part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team to overcome barriers to progression-of-care and facilitate a safe and coordinated discharge to the community. Services may include addressing parenting issues, substance abuse, stress management, adjustment to illness, trauma and bereavement, geriatric depression, and other mental health or emotional difficulties that impede the patient’s progression of care.

Schedule

• Scheduled weekly hours: 40
• Shift: Day Shift, 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM

Requirements

Education

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Social Work
• Preferred: Master's Degree in Social Work

Experience

• No prior experience required
• Recent work experience in healthcare preferred

Licensure/Certification/Registration

• License in Social Work preferred
• Eligible to sit for, and successfully pass the test of certification as a Certified Case Manager (CCM) or Accredited Care Manager (ACM) preferred

Skills

• Good communication skills – ability to communicate effectively in written format and/or oral presentations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; semi-independent in decision making
• Ability to maintain organization in a changing environment
• Exhibit initiative, responsibility, and flexibility
• Must be able to initiate and understand research related to projects
• Learn and appropriately utilize all required computer applications, including but not limited to email, 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

Benefits

Medical, vision, dental, retirement with employer match, and more (for employees working 20+ hours per week). For a comprehensive list of benefits, visit Benefits | CoxHealth.