Social Worker - Workwell - Hattiesburg (PT)

Work Well Clinic – Hattiesburg, MS • Part-Time, Day Shift – 2 days per week, no weekends

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family, plus life insurance
• 401(k) with employer matching for long-term financial stability
• Tuition reimbursement to support your continuing education
• Competitive pay and full benefits package
• Generous paid time off for work-life balance and recharging

About the Role

The social worker provides professional services to patients and families, facilitating the use of individual, public, and private resources to achieve optimal functioning. Core services include:

• Assessment of psychosocial functioning and capacities
• Counseling for care planning and decision-making
• Social work treatment and community resource planning

Social workers collaborate with multiple disciplines, programs, departments, and organizations to fulfill these duties.

Responsibilities

• Conducts psychosocial assessments for adolescent, adult, geriatric, neonatal, infant, and pediatric patients
• Determines the inter-relatedness of psychosocial factors and health status/disease process
• Identifies emotional, social, and financial needs of patient/family and provides assistance/referrals as appropriate
• Develops and follows up on appropriate treatment plans with the discharge planning team
• Acts as an expert resource in social work, assisting with complex cases
• Provides emotional support to patients and families, helping them cope with illness, disability, and challenging situations
• Facilitates patient/family support groups (e.g., cancer, stroke, AIDS)
• Participates in interdisciplinary discharge planning, conducting proactive assessments and documenting plans
• Implements discharge plans, including setting up home health, transfers to other facilities, and initial nursing home placements
• Assists in quality improvement initiatives, monitoring and trending hospital readmissions
• Manages high-risk referrals, including discharge planning for newly diagnosed cancer patients, suspected abuse cases, adoptions, high-risk mothers, fetal demise, long-term acute placements, ER and psych transfers, HIV/AIDS, and hospice patients
• Assists case management in transitioning patients to more appropriate levels of care
• Promotes effective communication and ensures continuity of care through clear, positive interactions with patients, families, hospital staff, nurses, physicians, and the case management team
• Maintains a supportive, collaborative relationship with the care team
• Consistently performs all social service functions to meet department volume and quality standards
• Communicates workload status to supervisor daily
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Maintains regular and reliable attendance
• Complies with all policies and standards

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work or Psychology
• 2–4 years of experience in individual, group, and family therapies
• LCSW – Licensed Clinical Social Worker (required)
• BCLS – Basic Life Support (obtained within 7 days of employment)