Social Worker (MSW)
Farmington, MOFull-time$57–93K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Social Worker primarily covers the Emergency Department, coordinating patient throughput and interdisciplinary care to support appropriate levels of care. The role collaborates with patients, families, the multidisciplinary team, and community resources, and serves as a clinical resource for ED physicians and staff within care coordination. The position provides direct clinical services and plans social work services with the healthcare team.
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Full job description
City/State: Farmington, Missouri
Categories: Case Coordination
Job Status: Full-Time
Req ID : 119443
Pay Range: $57,304.00 – $93,288.00 / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)
Additional Information About the Role
Are you looking for a career as a Social Worker ? Join our team at Parkland Health Center to make a direct impact on patient care and operations.
Position will primarily cover the Emergency Department (ED). The Social Worker is to establish, coordinate and maintain a process to increase patient throughput to the most appropriate level of care while facilitating interdisciplinary care across the continuum of the Emergency Department.
The Social Worker collaborates with the patient/family, multidisciplinary team and community resources to ensure the patients' progress and level of care is appropriately determined for the emergency episode of care. The Social Woker will be a clinical resource for the ED physician and staff within the scope of care coordination.
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Full Time - 40 Hours Per Week, M-F,
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rotating weekends on-call (every 7 weeks, mainly phone support for discharge planning)
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rotating holiday on call (1 holiday per year, team rotation)
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Day Shif t: preferred 830am-5pm; will consider 8am-430pm
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Perks: Benefits Eligible
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Location: Parkland Health Center
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Minimum Requiremen t :
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Master's Degree in Social Work
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Medical Social Work experience highly preferred
Overview
As part of BJC HealthCare, Parkland Health Center offers a unique combination of world-class medicine along with the deep local roots and rich history of its three predecessors – Bonne Terre Hospital (opened in 1911), Mineral Area Regional Medical Center (1952), and Farmington Community Hospital (1969). Parkland Health Center has two locations in St. Francois County, Missouri – a full-service acute care hospital in Farmington as well as a rural emergency hospital in Bonne Terre. Parkland Health Center provides quality primary and secondary level inpatient and outpatient services to the people of St. Francois County and surrounding areas in southeastern Missouri.
In addition, Parkland’s Farmington campus offers a full continuum of inpatient and medical-surgical and intensive care, obstetrics and emergency services, along with a wide variety of outpatient services including oncology services, an infusion center, a wound care clinic, and the Huckstep Heart and Lung Center. Bonne Terre is a Rural Emergency Hospital providing emergency services and outpatient services including medical observation, lab, radiology, and sleep study.
The Care Coordination Department provides support for the accurate and timely processing of patient care at PHC. This care includes finding the highest quality discharge planning possibly within our local community.
Preferred Qualifications
Role Purpose
Under direction of a physician, assists patients and their families in their residences or outpatient/inpatient settings to adapt and plan an interdisciplinary approach to treating the patient-family system.Employees working at an Illinois facility are required to have an Illinois state social work license or be able to take and pass the Illinois state social work licensing exam within 90 days of the first day of employment.
Responsibilities
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Provides direct clinical services to patients and families.
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Plans and implements social work services on assigned clinical service or unit in collaboration with the healthcare team.
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Collaborates with community human service agencies to meet the needs of patients, families, and the hospital.
Minimum Requirements
Education
- Master's Degree - Social Work
Experience
- No Experience
Supervisor Experience
- No Experience
Preferred Requirements
Experience
- 2-5 years
Benefits and Legal Statement
BJC Total Rewards
At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
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Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
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Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
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Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
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401(k) plan with BJC match
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Tuition Assistance available on first day
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BJC Institute for Learning and Development
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Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
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Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
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Adoption assistance
To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary (https://assets.jibecdn.com/prod/bjc/0.0.331/assets/2026%20Benefits%20Summary\_Final.pdf) .
*Not all benefits apply to all jobs
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer
How this job compares
Set against the 3,381 open Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$57–93K/yr
- US median$68–94K/yr989 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $75K, is 6% below the US median midpoint ($80K) — in the middle half of Social Worker salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 50 open Social Worker jobs in Missouri and 3,381 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Missouri
- BJC HealthCare (this employer)6 open
- Saint Luke's6 open
- Health Advocates Network5 open
- Experience
- Social Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,642 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,782 of the 3,381 open Social Worker jobs (53%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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