Social Worker II, Baptist Jacksonville

Job Summary

Baptist Health is looking to add a Social Worker II at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. This is a Full-Time Day's opportunity. 

As a Social Worker II, you will be responsible for:

• High level screening, assessing and planning for an identified high risk group of patients in the Emergency Department.
• Collaborating with the attending and resident staff as well as nursing, ancillary, professional, and technical staff, to coordinate the delivery of high quality, individualized, cost effective patient care.
• Utilizing Utilization Review criteria along with admission and discharge criteria to appropriately screen patients for admission or discharge. Concurrently,
  • 1) Intervening to enhance patient quality outcomes
  • 2) maintaining ongoing communication with the patient/family, medical staff, caregivers, and third party payors to set priorities, plan, organize and implement care that is goal directed towards quality outcomes
  • 3) Improving throughput and decreases inappropriate readmissions
  • 4) participating in oversight of resource utilization in critical care and emergency services areas

This Social Worker II will be located at Baptist Jacksonville. If you are interested in this Full-Time Days opportunity, please apply now.

Education Required

Master's Degree

Education Preferred

Doctorate

Experience

• 3-5 Years Discharge Planning Experience
• 3-5 Years Case Management Experience

License and Certification

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker Preferred

Location

Location Overview

Baptist Health, founded in 1955, is North Florida’s most comprehensive health care system and the area’s only non-profit, mission-driven, locally governed health care provider. Baptist Health has over 200 points of care throughout the Northeast Florida region, including our six award-winning hospitals: Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Baptist Medical Center Clay, Baptist Medical Center Nassau and Baptist Medical Center South. The most preferred health care system in the region, Baptist Health also includes 57 primary care offices, as well as home health, behavioral health, pastoral care, rehabilitation services, occupational health and urgent care.