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Shreveport, Louisiana

Outpatient Counselor / Social Worker - PRN

Social WorkerIncludes weekendsPer Diem

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Brentwood Hospital is looking for a dynamic Counselor / Social Worker to join our team of professionals who are dedicated to providing help and hope to individuals and families for the achievement of improving their mental health. Help, by providing a safe, nurturing environment while they are with us; hope, by providing options for continued improvement when they leave this environment.

The LPC/LCSW provides quality case management and psychotherapeutic services to adult psychiatric patients population (age range approximately 18 and up), adult CD patients population (age range approximately 18 and up), adolescent patient population (age range 13-17), child patient population, (age range approximately 4-11), and their families, spouse, significant other. Serves as a member of interdisciplinary team supporting the organization’s treatment program and philosophy and assure the deliverance of quality treatment of adult psychiatric patients, adult cd patients, adolescent patients, child patients and their families.

Essential Job Functions

Conducts psychosocial assessments to document history and identify preliminary issues for treatment focus by interviewing the patient and their family members.

Provides group and family process-oriented therapies as well as conducts educational and other didactic groups for patients and family members using various professional treatment modalities.

Daily progress notes summarized patient’s progress toward treatment goals; Contact with family, significant others, community agencies recorded in progress notes.

Develops and coordinates an individualized discharge plan for the patient by utilizing treatment team and chart information to determine the patient’s aftercare needs. Identifies and assesses family or community resources such as, group homes, or mental health practitioners to meet patients’ aftercare needs.

Join our team and discover a rewarding, fulfilling career. Brentwood Hospital is a 260-bed psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment facility located in Shreveport, Louisiana. Brentwood has served Louisiana, East Texas and South Arkansas for more than 45 years.

We provide quality services to children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. We help individuals and families achieve optimal mental health, resulting in improved quality of life.

A dedicated professional team provides individualized treatment, meeting the personal needs of our patients in a safe and nurturing environment.

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance.

Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500® corporation, annual revenues during 2025 were $17.4 billion. In 2026, UHS was again recognized as one of Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies™ and in 2025, was listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies.

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 101,500 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located in 40 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. For additional information visit uhs.com.

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Qualifications

Education / Experience

Master's Degree in social work, counseling or related field. Experience in inpatient or outpatient mental health setting preferred.

  • Hours: Saturday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Licensure: LPC or LCSW license required

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Group therapyFamily therapyDischarge planningMental health counselingCrisis interventionTreatment planningPatient documentationInterdisciplinary collaboration

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 26% are remote, 32% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Louisiana is 88.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.8% of Louisiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Social Work by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingLouisiana index 88.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in Louisiana108 active6,476 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 26% remote · 32% no call · 74% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedLouisiana Social Worker listings: <1% state a sign-on bonus · 4% offer loan repayment118 active listings, Nov 2026
New Social Work listings2,525 in the last 30 days1,439 the 30 days before (+75%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,407 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Shreveport

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$152k
Typical market rent
$1,149/mo
Residents’ average commute
19 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
84.8
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.