If you believe that good medicine has the power to heal our community to its very core, then we invite you to join the Baltimore Medical System (BMS) team, Maryland’s largest federally qualified health center. Here, our physicians are dedicated to delivering something different—healthcare with dignity—a model of care that empowers vulnerable and underserved patients to take control of their health so that they can take control of their lives. Every life you touch here makes our entire community stronger.

Rewarding Community Health Center opportunity in Baltimore. Serve where the need is the greatest with colleagues who are mission-driven and focused on improving outcomes for a disadvantaged population.

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) applies specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in the areas of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional, behavioral, and developmental disorders, conditions, and addictions. The LCSW-C participates as an integral member of the Patient care team. The focus is to recognize the patient and his/her family as the unit of care to assist them with the necessary psychosocial adjustments imposed by chronic and/or terminal illness to support the patient’s care goals. Social Work cases are managed on a referral basis, both formal with a written order and informal as identified by the Social Workers themselves or by a member of the healthcare team. Referral sources include the Physician, and the Clinical Staff, the patient/family, and outside agencies (referral reasons are as defined in the scope of this role description). Demonstrates and develops specialized knowledge and understanding of the patient and his family in order to respond to their needs for support, information, autonomy, and performance. Knowledge of theoretical and bio-psychosocial factors is essential. Social, psychological and health factors and their interplay on psychosocial functionally on theories of personality and behavior, ethnic, social, and cultural influences, environmental influences, physical health, impairment, and disability, including mental and emotional controls caused by chronic and terminal illness.

• Student loan repayment eligibility through the National Health Services Corps (NHSC) 
• In-house interpreters are available for Spanish, Arabic, Nepali, Burmese, etc. at our Highlandtown location