Clinical Social Worker (MSW)
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Job Description
Current Saint Francis Employees - Please click HERE to login and apply. This position is ECB status – requires a minimum number of worked hours per month as needed by the department; limited benefit offerings. Days. #ALDIND Shift: M-W 8-430 adult social work discharge planning.
Job Summary: The Clinical Social Worker provides skilled Social Work services in areas of comprehensive case management, discharge planning, continuing care services, advocacy, and crisis intervention. This role specializes in handling abuse/neglect cases, crisis intervention and trauma informed care.
The Clinical Social Worker conducts comprehensive mental health assessments to determine suicidality including completing the SAFE-T and makes recommendations to the treatment team.
The Clinical Social Worker is skilled in safety planning and coordinating wrap around services, and completing legal paperwork (Licensed Mental Health Professional Statement) LMHPS for patients requiring involuntary detention. Minimum Education: Master's degree in Social Work or related behavioral health field.
Licensure, Registration and/or Certification: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Work Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience. Hospital or community health agency setting, preferred. Experience with assigned patient populations, preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of Microsoft 365 and other applicable software. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal that present clear and concise information. Effective organization and leadership skills.
Ability to collaborate with colleagues of all levels and build cross-functional relationships. Ability to assess, create treatment plans, and execute plans for a full spectrum of mental health conditions.
Sound ability to maintain professional and courteous and demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in adynamic work environment. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: Supervises graduate level students and supervises other social workers pursuing their clinical licensure.
Receives referrals and assesses in a timely manner those patients and families/significant others who are referred to social service work service. Integrates social work plan into overall patient care through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Conducts clinical mental health assessments for patients in behavioral health crisis, legal paperwork for involuntary detention and provides safety planning for patients ready for discharge.
Provides skilled Social Work Services in the areas of comprehensive case management, discharge planning, continuing care services, including crisis intervention, abuse and neglect, advanced directives, psychiatric placements/issues, end of life issues, and patient/family education utilizing individual and family modalities.
Assesses for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and provides needed intervention/resources. Facilitates efforts to obtain insurance coverage for hospital and community-based services. Refers patients, families/significant others, and hospital staff to appropriate services to ensure continuity and quality of care.
Understands and utilizes hospital and community-based resources and entitlements including participating in community education and support group activities. Develops and utilizes specialized knowledge of resources related to the needs of specific patient populations.
Completes statistical reports, documents the patient care plan, staff interventions/outcomes promptly and completely within the patient's medical record.
Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to develop complex discharge plans prospectively and conducts transitional planning for patients moving to nursing homes or other facilities. Decision Making: Independent judgment in making decisions involving non-routine problems under general supervision.
Working Relationships: Works directly with patients and/or customers. Works with internal and/or external customers via telephone or face to face interaction. Works with other healthcare professionals and staff. Works frequently with individuals at Director level or above. Special Job Dimensions: None.
Supplemental Information: This document generally describes the essential functions of the job and the physical demands required to perform the job. This compilation of essential functions and physical demands is not all inclusive nor does it prohibit the assignment of additional duties.
Clinical Care Management - Yale Campus Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136 Under the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Use and Patient Protection Act (OMMA), a safety sensitive position is defined as any job that includes tasks or duties that the employer believes could affect the safety and health of the employee performing the task or others.
This position has been identified as a safety sensitive position.
This statute allows employers to lawfully refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs or to discipline or discharge employees who work in safety-sensitive jobs if they test positive for marijuana, even if they have a valid license to use medical marijuana.
EOE Protected Veterans/Disability Saint Francis is a Catholic, not-for-profit Health system based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are the largest private employer in Eastern Oklahoma with over 12,000 employees, including 1,000 physicians.
The health system is anchored by the 1,112-bed Saint Francis Hospital, the largest hospital in Oklahoma and the 11th largest in the nation.
Our system also includes hospitals in south Tulsa, Muskogee and Vinita, as well as 110 Warren Clinic locations from Monkey Island to McAlester, northeastern Oklahoma's only children's hospital, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit, a 168-bed heart hospital, and Tulsa's leading trauma and emergency center.
Key Responsibilities
The Clinical Social Worker provides skilled social work services including comprehensive case management, discharge planning, continuing care, advocacy, and crisis intervention, specializing in abuse/neglect cases and trauma-informed care. This role involves conducting mental health assessments, completing necessary legal paperwork for involuntary detention, and supervising students and other social workers.
Requirements
A Master's degree in Social Work or a related behavioral health field is the minimum education requirement, along with a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) license. A minimum of 5 years of experience is required, preferably in a hospital or community health agency setting.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Clinical Social Worker (MSW) at Saint Francis Health System a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Social Work — ranked against 6,518 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc.
Social Worker Career Context
Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 40% have no call, 50% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Oklahoma is 87.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.9% of Oklahoma clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Work-life score | 8.0 / 10 · top 5% in social work | ranked against 6,518 Social Work listingslisting-based score, 0–10 |
| Listed pay | not listed | Social Work median $72k (middle half $63k–$83k)285 comparable listings, Oct 2026 |
| Cost of living | Oklahoma index 87.8 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Social Work listings in Oklahoma | 49 active | 6,529 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 46% remote · 40% no call · 50% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
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