Social Worker
SSM Health
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About the Role
- Join a team where your work matters – every moment, every patient, every community.
- Empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.
- Provide hands-on support in a fast-paced care environment.
- Attention to detail, compassion, and ability to work closely with clinical teams will help create a safer, smoother care experience.
- Perfect for those who enjoy interacting with patients and want to grow in a collaborative care setting.
Department: Behavioral Health
Schedule: Full time, night shift, 7pm to 7am with every third weekend and holiday rotation.
Job Summary
Provides social work assistance to patients and families as related to social determinants of health.
Key Responsibilities
- Interviews patients, assesses priorities and documents case activity.
- May consult with members of the multi-disciplinary team in liaison with community resources to support the patient's treatment.
- Assists patients/families with obtaining community assistance by referral to proper resources.
- Develops and maintains working relationships with community health, welfare, and social agencies and seeks creative means to assist the patient with his/her needs.
- Active participant with other members of the team regarding opportunities for improvement in standard work.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work
Qualifications
- No experience required
Physical Requirements
- Frequent reaching, sitting, standing and walking.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more).
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Occasional use of vision to identify and distinguish colors.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements and squatting.
Professional License And/Or Certifications
- None