Social Worker- ED, Outpatient

Job Description

The Social Worker creates optimal outcomes for the patient and family by managing complex psychosocial and economic co‑morbidities. Through advanced practice skills, the Social Worker mobilizes resources to reduce risk and serves as ambassador between the hospital and community. The role involves providing social work services to patients and families to optimize their ability to benefit from treatment, cope with the realities of their medical condition, and participate in their care.

Responsibilities include coordinating transitions of care for patients with high psychosocial needs, developing and maintaining current knowledge of local, state, and federal services that may provide education and resources, and ensuring timely, accurate, and complete data entry in multiple information systems. The Social Worker collaborates with the Care Manager and other interdisciplinary team members to review multidisciplinary plans of care, attends Multidisciplinary Rounds or Huddles, monitors progress toward social work goals, assesses potential obstacles to community reintegration, and escalates issues through appropriate channels.

The role also involves effective communication and collaboration with all health care team members to facilitate timely service delivery, interpreting complex patient/family needs, counseling patients and families on emotional, social, and financial consequences of illness, and providing brief crisis counseling and therapeutic intervention for high‑utilizers of the health care system.

• Provides therapeutic intervention to facilitate complex discharge planning by completing psychosocial assessments and high‑risk screens after independent case‑finding or receiving referrals; develops and documents a short‑term treatment plan.
• Identifies the need for and conducts family meetings that result in comfort, decisions, and other important outcomes.
• Serves as the lead in obtaining charity and financial resources, legal guardianship, adoptions, psychiatric referrals, and competency determinations; provides intervention for end‑of‑life, guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, adoption, and related issues; serves as liaison between Tampa General and state and county protective teams.
• Participates in Care Coordination Rounds.
• Helps create function and productivity on the many teams to which the Social Worker belongs, facilitating conflict resolution to present a united message to patients and families.
• Leads or co‑leads a standing support/education group for an at‑risk population.
• Works with people and agencies in the community to improve responsiveness, capabilities, alignment, and evaluation of services to patients and families.
• Actively participates in clinical performance improvement activities.
• Completes all processes required to facilitate patients’ movement through levels of care.
• Provides specialized mental health services, including crisis intervention and addiction assessments, and recommends psychiatric referral or community resources.
• MSW degree from a C.S.W.E.–accredited college or university Social Work program.
• At least two years’ experience in a health care facility or program.
• Pediatric experience strongly preferred.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) preferred.
• ED experience preferred.

Tampa

TGH Main Campus

On Site

Social Work

Florida Health Sciences Center Tampa General Hospital

Full‑time

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Evening Job

On Site

10:30a-7p

29.60

Jan 13, 2026, 6:16:57 AM