# Medical Social Worker

**Company**: Oak Street Health
**Location**: Memphis, TN
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $43,888.00 - $91,052.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Medical Social Worker to join our team at Oak Street Health Centers in Memphis, TN. As a Medical Social Worker, you will be a key member of our care team, contributing to the psychosocial needs of our patients. You will provide assessments, advocacy, and comprehensive care coordination services to our highest-risk patients and their caregivers to help them improve their health status and avoid hospitalizations.

**Core Responsibilities:**

- Proactively support our highest-need patients by providing comprehensive assessments, telephonic check-ins, and in-person visits.

- Partner with patients and their support persons to identify goals, increase engagement in their healthcare, address barriers, and drive the execution of their care plan.

- Maintain extensive knowledge of community resources and make referrals as needed.

- Navigate patient insurance benefits in collaboration with the Patient Relations Manager.

- Provide longitudinal and episodic comprehensive care coordination to empower patients to independently manage their health conditions.

- Educate patients on supportive care options, including advance care planning and end-of-life care.

- Provide psychoeducation to patients and families on life stage and disease-specific issues.

- Collaborate with care teams to generate creative solutions to patient issues.

- Complete concise and comprehensive documentation on time.

- Partner with Community Health Workers and provide clinical guidance and consultation.

- Respond to crises and urgent needs.

**Requirements:**

- Master of Social Work degree from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

- Minimally licensed in the state where OSH Center is located.

- Fluency in Spanish, Polish, Russian, or other languages spoken by people in the communities we serve (where necessary).

- Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft, GSuite, and electronic medical records.

- US work authorization.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Prior experience with complex care coordination and/or population healthcare management.

- Familiarity with using metrics and data to guide practice and drive outcomes.

- Minimum one year of medical social work experience in a healthcare environment, preferably within the last two years.

- Experience working on a multidisciplinary team of other healthcare providers.

**Salary:** $43,888.00 - $91,052.00

**Benefits:** We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources.

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## Skills

### Required
- Master of Social Work
- social work
- Microsoft
- GSuite
- electronic medical records
- Spanish
- Polish
- Russian

### Nice to have
- complex care coordination
- population healthcare management
- metrics
- data analysis
- medical social work
- multidisciplinary team

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