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FMOL Health
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Social Worker 2 - LMSW Diff Lake Main Campus

Social WorkerFull-Time

Compensation

Pay not listed

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Posted 7mo ago

Job Description

The Social Worker provides medical social work services to patients and families in the acute care setting in the Care Management Department. This includes psychosocial assessments, discharge planning, linkage to community resources, collaboration with other treatment team members, and/or supportive counseling and crisis intervention.

At Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, we offer you much more than just a job in the healthcare industry. We offer career opportunities for people who have a calling to share their gifts and talents as part of our healing ministry.

As a Catholic hospital, we are here to create a spirit of healing - and we invite you to join our team today if you would like to be part of that spirit.

In addition to competitive salaries and generous benefits, we offer you something special - the chance to do God's work by helping to serve people in need throughout our community, every day.

Our Lady of the Lake is uniquely capable of caring for a full range of illness or injury, including those that are extremely complex, for both pediatric and adult patients. Our family of services includes:

  • An 988-bed hospital and the area’s only Level II Trauma Center
  • A freestanding Children's Hospital
  • A 545-provider care network covering more than 40 specialties
  • Two free-standing emergency rooms—Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North
  • A network of nearly 15 urgent care clinics
  • Outpatient imaging and surgery centers
  • Assumption Community Hospital
  • Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University
  • Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, a 78-bed, community hospital providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services to Ascension Parish and surrounding areas

We serve 38,000 inpatients and 820,000 outpatients annually and are committed to building a healthy community through excellence in patient care and education. A part of FMOL Health, Our Lady of the Lake is consistently awarded for compassionate care, clinical expertise, leading edge technology and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

The Social Worker delivers medical social work services to patients and families in the acute care environment, focusing on psychosocial assessments and discharge planning. Responsibilities also include linking patients to community resources, collaborating with the treatment team, and providing supportive counseling and crisis intervention.

Requirements

Minimum requirements for the LMSW track include a Master's Degree and a current Louisiana State Board of Social Workers License (LMSW). The LCSW track requires a Master's Degree, some previous social work experience, and a current Louisiana State Board of Social Workers License (LCSW).

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Community Resources Linkage

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 40% have no call, 54% 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
Listed paynot listedSocial Work median $73k (middle half $65k–$85k)333 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingLouisiana index 88.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in Louisiana92 active6,601 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 44% remote · 40% no call · 54% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Social Worker Jobs

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Salary Distribution

31 jobs · 25 employers
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

28 jobs · 25 employers
401k / retirement match
93% this job
Sign-on bonus
25%
CME allowance
25%
Loan repayment
7%
PSLF eligible
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Master Social Worker (LMSW) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 237 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About FMOL Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Baton Rouge, LA
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Retirement Plan

Living in Baton Rouge

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$239k
Typical market rent
$1,333/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
90.8
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Baton Rouge, LA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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