• Job Description

  Req#: 151332

  
  

  Baptist Health is the region’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, with 12 hospitals, over 28,000 employees, 4,500 physicians and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities and physician practices across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties. With internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences, Baptist Health is supported by philanthropy and driven by its faith-based mission of medical excellence. For 25 years, we’ve been named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, and in the 2024-2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health was the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, earning 45 high-performing honors.

  What truly sets us apart is our people. At Baptist Health, we create personal connections with our colleagues that go beyond the workplace, and we form meaningful relationships with patients and their families that extend beyond delivering care. Many of us have walked in our patients’ shoes ourselves and that shared experience fuels out commitment to compassion and quality. Our culture is rooted in purpose, and every team member plays a part in making a positive impact – because when it comes to caring for people, we’re all in.

  Description:

  
  Intervenes with patients/families for psychosocial needs, assistance, support in coping with chronic acute terminal illness. Services may include: consultation discharge planning, education, counseling, advocacy, info referrals to meet the emotional social, financial aspects of care. Provides crisis intervention to patients/families with psychosocial needs. Coordinates/Facilitates development of a discharge plan of care. Provides patient/family services via case finding referrals from physicians and healthcare team members. Serves as an expert and acts as a liaison between patients and community resources. Identifies patient and family psycho-social and environmental needs related to admission, diagnosis, treatment and discharge. Works collaboratively with other members of the interdisciplinary team in developing and implementing a comprehensive discharge plan. Makes appropriate referrals for to community services. May provide inpatient emotional support and counseling, crisis intervention, and bereavement services. Assesses and intervenes in situations involving child or elder abuse/neglect, domestic violence. Provides care and services to all patient groups: neonatal, infant, pediatric, adolescent, and adults. Estimated pay range for this position is $37.25 / hour depending on shift as applicable.

  Qualifications:

  
  

  Degrees:

  • Masters.

  Additional Qualifications:

  • Masters in Social Work (MSW).
  • Demonstrate ability to solve problems in a fast-paced environment.
  • 0-1 years of social work experience in hospital or related health care setting, Emergency Department experience preferred.
  • Internship will be considered as experience.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
  • Strong analytical, data management and computer skills.
  • Current working knowledge of discharge planning, crisis intervention, complex case management and performance improvement preferred.
  • Strong working knowledge of community services available for insured and non-insured patients.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills, as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components.
  • Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple high-risk, complex patients.
  • Ability to work with multiple members of a care team and maintain positive working relationships.

  Minimum Required Experience:

  • MSW Required

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  EOE, including disability/vets

• About the company

  Baptist Health South Florida is a faith-based, not-for-profit healthcare organization and clinical care network in southern Florida.

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