Social Worker-Crestwood Medical Center-FT-1st shift
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Job Description
Prepares the patient and/or patient’s family to transition from the hospital to the next appropriate care setting based on their individual needs.
Applies their understanding of medical conditions, insurance coverage and how physical/psychosocial may affect the patient once a patient leaves the medical setting to plan and initiate an individualized discharge plan.
Provide clinical information to payers and/or post-acute providers in order to obtain authorizations for hospitalized patients.
Qualifications
- Education required: Bachelor of Social Work (unless MSW required for licensing) from an accredited institution
- Education preferred: Masters of Social Work from an accredited institution preferred
- Experience: 3+ years acute care hospital experience preferred
License/Certificates: Licensed Medical Social Worker (i. e. LSW, LCSW, ACSW, etc) in Alabama OR Licensed in Alabama within 6 months of employment
Key Responsibilities
The social worker prepares patients and their families for transition from the hospital to appropriate care settings by developing individualized discharge plans. They also coordinate with payers and post-acute providers to secure necessary authorizations for hospitalized patients.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Social Worker Career Context
Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 32% have no call, 62% require no weekends.
Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Alabama is 88.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Alabama clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in Huntsville
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $272k
- Typical market rent
- $1,330/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 20 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 93.1
- State income tax
- Up to 5%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Huntsville, AL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.
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