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Social Worker Float - Case Management

CoxHealth
place Springfield, 65817
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Social Work Other Behavioral, Mental, or Healthcare Field
Facility

CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Department

1085 Case Management South

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Hours

Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth Is a Leading Healthcare System Serving 25 Counties Across Southwest Missouri And Northern Arkansas. The Organization Includes Six Hospitals, 5 ERs, And Over 80 Clinics. CoxHealth Has Earned The Following Honors For Workplace Excellence

  • Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.
  • Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.
  • Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
  • Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
  • For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Description

Provides supportive advocacy to patients and their families as part of an interdisciplinary health care team to overcome barriers to progression-of-care and facilitate a safe and coordinated discharge to the community. Services may include parenting issues, substance abuse, stress management, adjustment to illness, trauma and bereavement, geriatric depression, and other mental health or emotional difficulties that impede the patient’s progression of care.

Additional Information About The Position For Qualified Candidates

$1.00 Certification pay

Career Ladder Bonus eligible up to $5,000

Education

▪ Required: Bachelor's Degree in Social Work

▪ Preferred: Master's Degree in Social Work

Experience

▪ Required: No Prior Experience

▪ Preferred: Recent work experience in health care

Skills

▪ Good communication skills – Ability to communicate effectively in written format and/or oral presentations

▪ Strong analytical & problem solving skills; semi-independent in decision making

▪ Ability to maintain organization in a changing environment

▪ Exhibit initiative, responsibility & flexibility

▪ Must be able to initiate and understand research related to projects

▪ Learn and appropriately utilize all required computer applications, including but not limited to E-mail, Windows-based or Microsoft programs

▪ Ability to write effective documentation for processes and procedures.

▪ Ability to make routine decisions in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

▪ Appropriate assessment skills

Licensure/Certification/Registration

▪ License in Social work preferred

▪ Eligible to sit for, and successfully pass the test of certification as a certified Case Manager ( CCM) or Accredited Care Manager (ACM) preferred

Professional Field

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Patient Focus

Diagnoses

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Issues

News, Politics, and Society
Racism, Diversity, and Tolerance
Stress
Trauma

Age Groups

Elderly (65+)

Therapeutic Approach

Methodologies

ECT

Practice Specifics

Populations

Victims of Crime/Abuse (VOC/VOA)

Settings

In-patient Non-Psychiatric
In-patient Psychiatric
Milieu
Private Practice
Home Health/In-home