Social Worker; MSW

Summary

Job Description:

Baptist Health Medical Group is looking for a Social Worker (MSW) to join our team! This is a remote work position that requires residency in KY or IN The Ambulatory Social Worker is a non-clinical social work position responsible for the case management of Baptist Health patients attributed to value-based contracts, which includes patients in the clinically integrated network and accountable care organization as well as patients identified with social determinants of health barriers to care.

The Ambulatory Social Worker is responsible for engaging patients through telephonic outreach who have been identified for social work services, developing a personalized plan of care, ensuring coordination of community resources, and managing individualized psychosocial and financial outcomes. The Ambulatory Social Worker provides emotional support services to patients and their families, facilitates conversations regarding Advanced Care Planning, identifies social determinants of health barriers to care, facilitates community resource networking to address identified needs, coordinates continuity of patient care with external healthcare organizations and facilities, and supports patient self-management of medical and psychosocial care needs.

• Master's degree in social work (MSW) from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education required.
• Current Kentucky license as a Certified Social Worker (CSW) required.
• For employees working in both Kentucky and Indiana, reciprocal licensure in nonresident state required within 3 months of hire.
• For employees covering patients who reside in Tennessee, reciprocal Tennessee licensure required within 3 months of hire.
• Certification in Case Management (CCM) preferred.
• Minimum two years of medical social work experience preferred.

Monday through Friday 8am to 4:30pm Remote/Work from Home

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call . For TDD to voice, call .