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Social Worker (LCSW or LMSW) - Social Work Services - UH Lakewood Medical Center (5 days per week; 8a-4:30p; Mon-Fri)101 Truman Medical Center
UH Lakewood Medical CenterKansas City, Missouri
Social Work Services UHLMC
Full time
8:00AM - 4:30PM
40
Medical Social Worker – LMSW/LCSW
Supporting Patients Across Acute, Ambulatory & Long-Term Care Settings
Are you a compassionate and driven Social Worker ready to make a meaningful difference in patient lives? Join our multidisciplinary care team and help provide critical support services to patients and their families in a variety of healthcare settings — including acute care, outpatient, and long-term care.
As a Medical Social Worker, you will deliver high-quality psychosocial care, engage in crisis intervention, assist with care transitions, and be a key resource for patient education and advocacy.
What You’ll Do:
Assess and address the psychosocial needs of patients and families.
Coordinate discharge planning, referrals, and protective services as needed.
Provide crisis intervention, pre-admission screening, and long-term care support
Collaborate as part of a multidisciplinary team to support patient-centered care.
May participate in program development, professional training, and student supervision.
Qualifications:
For LCSW Candidates:
✔ Master's degree in Social Work from a CSWE-accredited program
✔ Active Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Missouri
✔ At least 2 years of post-graduate clinical experience
✔ Solid understanding of clinical theory and social work practice
✔ Research and analytical skills
✔ Strong written and verbal communication — including public speaking
✔ Ability to work across diverse populations and healthcare teams
✔ Experience in healthcare or mental health settings preferred
✔ If applicable, must meet requirements outlined in our Fleet Driving Safety Policy
For LMSW Candidates:
✔ Master’s degree in Social Work from a CSWE-accredited program
✔ Licensed in Missouri as an LMSW, or eligible to obtain license within 90 days of hire
✔ Strong knowledge of social work practice and theory at the MSW level
✔ Ability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary setting
✔ Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
✔ Healthcare or mental health care experience is a plus
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
Be part of a mission-driven team focused on whole-person care.
Grow your career through clinical experience, mentorship, and education opportunities
Make a real difference in the lives of patients, families, and the communities we serve.
Ready to bring compassion and clinical expertise to the forefront of care? We’d love to meet you.
University Health (UH) has all the things you expect from a great health system. With two acute care academic hospital locations, the largest, most comprehensive behavioral health program in the area, a long-term care facility and multiple primary care practices, UH provides the highest quality care – from routine screenings to the most complicated cases. We are the primary teaching hospital for the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, so our doctors are academic specialists who teach tomorrow’s doctors the very latest updates.
University Health Truman Medical Center, our downtown campus, is one of the busiest Level One Trauma Center in the city. Providers offer the full range of services with specialties in chronic disease management, high risk pregnancy and sleep disorders along with the state-of-the art Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Center.
University Health 1, located at 2101 Charlotte Street is an outpatient care and day-surgery center, with sixteen clinics including Sabates Eye Center, Plastic Surgery, Hernia repair and Medical Imaging with Siemens 3D Mammography.
At University Health 2, 2211 Charlotte St, providers offer Primary and Women's Care.
In eastern Jackson County, University Health Lakewood Medical Center sits on 300 acres of beautiful wooded grounds. We are a community hospital providing the continuum of care— from emergency medicine to a nationally-certified orthopaedic joint replacement program — as well as The Family Birthplace, We have several family medical care centers and a radiology center, Medical Imaging Eastland, that provides the latest in technology and specialized breast cancer care.
Mission
University Health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
