Intervenes with patients and families facing chronic or terminal illnesses to provide psychosocial support, counseling, and crisis intervention. Coordinates comprehensive discharge plans and acts as a liaison between patients and community resources.
Requirements summary
Requires a Master's degree and a license as a Clinical Social Worker or an eligible Intern. Candidates must have at least 3 years of hospital social work experience, including 2 years post-Masters.
Baptist Health is the region's largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, with 12 hospitals, over 29,000 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 26 years, we've been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, and in the 2025-2026 U.S.
News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health was the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, earning 63 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.
At Baptist Health, we’re committed to supporting our employees at every stage of their journey, both personally and professionally.
Our approach is rooted in a “grow our own” philosophy, designed to help our team members build meaningful, long-term careers with us, supported by benefits that make a real difference, including: Career growth and development opportunities, with clear pathways and ongoing support Comprehensive health and wellness resources that go beyond traditional benefits A wellness program that can help employees eliminate their medical plan deductible, reducing out-of-pocket healthcare costs Tuition reimbursement to support continued learning and advancement And so much more Together, these benefits and others reflect our commitment to caring for our people, so they can build fulfilling careers with us while making a meaningful impact every day.
Description
Intervenes with patients/families with psychosocial needs and need assistance, support in coping with chronic acute terminal illness.
Services may include consultation, discharge planning, education, counseling, advocacy, info referral services to assist patients to meet emotional, social and financial aspects of care.
Benefits
Wellness Program
Sign-On Bonus
Tuition Reimbursement
Career Growth And Development Opportunities
Comprehensive Health And Wellness Resources
Provides crisis intervention to patients/families with psychosocial needs and coordinates facilitates discharge plan.
Provides patient care services via case finding, patient/family referrals, referrals from physicians, RN Case Mgrs, Nurses, members of the healthcare team.
Serves as an expert, acts as a liaison between patients, co resources.
Identify patent/family psycho-social environmental needs related to admission, diagnosis, treatment, discharge.
Collaborates with interdisciplinary team and develops/implements a comprehensive discharge, Makes appropriate referrals to co services, provides support, counseling, crisis intervention, bereavement services.
Assess and intervenes with child, adult, elder abuse/neglect and domestic violence.
Serves all patient groups: neonatal through adults Estimated salary range for this position is $65835.36 - $85585.97 / year depending on experience.
Qualifications
Degrees
Masters.
Licenses &
Certifications: Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern. Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Additional
Qualifications:
LCSW or
Must meet all of the following requirements : 3 years of hospital SWR experience, with 2 years post Masters experience, and active Register Clinical Social Work Intern license, and be eligible to sit for LCSW exam at the time of entry into the SWR 2 position. Employee must sign a BHSF Contract for Certification/Licensure which stipulates that employee will obtain LCSW within 12 months from date of promotion to Social Work Case Manager 2. Demonstrate ability to solve problems in a fast-paced environment. 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.
