Social Worker MSW
London, KYJob$24.27–36.1/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Social Worker provides support and guidance to individuals and families facing complex challenges. The role conducts psychosocial assessments, develops care plans, provides counseling and crisis intervention, connects clients with resources, and advocates for clients. The Social Worker collaborates with multidisciplinary care teams to promote holistic support and well-being.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Social Worker, you will be a compassionate advocate, providing vital support and guidance to individuals and families facing complex challenges.
Every day, you will conduct psychosocial assessments, develop care plans, provide counseling and crisis intervention, and connect clients to resources. You'll advocate for clients and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure holistic support and promote well-being.
To be successful in this role, you will possess exceptional interpersonal skills, empathy, strong knowledge of community resources, and proven crisis management abilities, fostering positive change and client empowerment.
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Conducts a psychosocial assessment on identified priority patients in collaboration with family.
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Outline available strategies and services to assist in addressing psychosocial care needs, and to make recommendations as appropriate.
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Specialized screening tools may be used for the assessment such as Depression screen, Anxiety screen, Substance Abuse screen, Health Literacy screen, Mental Status screen, and Social Support screen as well as other specialized screens and evaluative tools.
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Develops individualized psychosocial case plans in collaboration with Case Manager -Acute Care based on assessment and in conjunction with other members of the Care Management team.
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Documents actions in medical record according to departmental guidelines and oversees process of exchange of information with other facilities/agencies adhering to legal mandates about confidentiality.
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Provides crisis interventions and psychosocial counseling services to restore patients and families to optimum social and psychological health based on their strengths and use of available resources.
Job Requirements
Required
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Masters Of Science Social Work and Demonstrated experience in case management, discharge planning, and transfer coordination. , upon hire
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Master Social Worker: KY, upon hire
Where You'll Work
Welcome to Saint Joseph London, a 150-bed regional hospital founded in 1926. Located on a 52 acre healing environment, Saint Joseph London offers private patient rooms that overlook a small lake and healing garden and has been recognized as a Best Place to Work in Kentucky for five years in a row (2020-2024).
CHI Health Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.
Pay Range
$24.27 - $36.10 /hour
We are an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,277 open Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$24.27–36.1/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr51 hourly ranges
- US median$31–45/hr928 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $30.19/hr, is 316% above the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the top quarter of Social Worker hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 67 open Social Worker jobs in Kentucky and 3,277 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Seven Counties30 open
- BrightSpring Health Services7 open
- UnitedHealth Group5 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 (1,596 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,773 of the 3,277 open Social Worker jobs (54%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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