Social Worker
Behavioral Health Unit
PRN (as needed)

Job Summary:
To assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the care and services of patients across the Behavioral and Mental Health continuum.

Education:
Master's Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work required.

Certifications:
Licensed Social Worker with the state of Mississippi.

Experience:
At least one (1) year of experience in healthcare as a social worker required.

Language/Communication Skills:
English required. Multilingual capabilities enhance the ability to perform this job. Must have the ability to speak effectively and professionally to all staff, management, and all outside individuals at all levels from elementary to professional. Excellent interviewing, assessment, and communication and clinical counseling skills. Working knowledge of community resources, eligibility guidelines, and availability to patients/families. Working knowledge of social and financial systems. Ability to prioritize tasks, and manage time efficiently. Ability to manage several projects and multiple cases concurrently. Ability to coordinate patient care between a variety of ancillary services and settings. Recognizes quality of care and risk issues and reports these to the appropriate individuals. Working knowledge of McKesson (InterQual) criteria. Assessment of age-specific data in terms of patient needs. Working knowledge of Medicare parts A&B, Medicaid, other payor sources, and DRG assignments.

Mathematical Skills:
Skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers, fractions, and decimals without a calculator. Ability to draw and interpret bar graphs and flow charts. Skill in computing ratios, rates and percentages.

Reasoning Ability:
Must have the ability to apply non-judgmental reasoning capabilities whenever necessary when dealing with patients, visitors, and staff. Critical thinking and multitasking skills a must. Must possess purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, creteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based.