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Behavioral Health Social Worker jobs are open across healthcare systems, community mental health centers, government agencies, and nonprofits, at every level from entry-level case manager to licensed clinical supervisor, with specializations in crisis intervention, substance use treatment, and child and family services. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) MSW Social Worker Outpatient Behavioral Health with Portsmouth Regional Hospital you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!
Job Summary and Qualifications
Deliver exceptional, patient-focused care by providing supervised mental health services to patients and their loved ones. Their responsibilities include conducting assessments, offering psycho-education, leading process groups, developing treatment plans, and facilitating therapeutic counseling sessions using evidence-based interventions in one-on-one, family, and group therapy.
What you will do in this Role:
- Conducts one-on-one, group, and family psychoeducational and process groups.
- Develops treatment plans and attends treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis.
- Assesses environment and patient’s safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition.
- Identifies risk factors, screening criteria, and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement).
- Completes assessments, group notes, and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements, as appropriate to scope.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patients’ discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge.
- Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.
What qualifications you will need:
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
- Masters Degree in Social Work required
Benefits
Portsmouth Regional Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
At Portsmouth Regional Hospital, you're not just joining a hospital—you’re becoming part of a mission-driven team that’s redefining healthcare excellence across the Seacoast region. As a 240-bed acute care facility in Portsmouth, NH, we proudly serve communities throughout New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. We’re the only hospital in the area to be recognized as an ACS Verified Level II Trauma Center and a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and we offer a robust heart and vascular program—giving our team the opportunity to work at the forefront of life-saving care.
As part of the HCA Healthcare family, you’ll be supported by one of the nation’s leading healthcare systems, with a strong presence in New Hampshire that includes four hospitals, three freestanding emergency rooms, and over 70 care sites. Here, nearly 5,000 colleagues—including 1,500 nurses and 1,000 affiliated physicians—collaborate to deliver exceptional care and innovation every day. Whether you're at Portsmouth, Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, Parkland Medical Center in Derry, Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, or one of our emergency facilities in Seabrook, Dover, or Plaistow, you’ll find a culture that values your expertise, supports your growth, and empowers you to make a real difference.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our MSW Social Worker Outpatient Behavioral Health opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) MSW Social Worker Outpatient Behavioral Health with Portsmouth Regional Hospital you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!
Job Summary and Qualifications
Deliver exceptional, patient-focused care by providing supervised mental health services to patients and their loved ones. Their responsibilities include conducting assessments, offering psycho-education, leading process groups, developing treatment plans, and facilitating therapeutic counseling sessions using evidence-based interventions in one-on-one, family, and group therapy.
What you will do in this Role:
- Conducts one-on-one, group, and family psychoeducational and process groups.
- Develops treatment plans and attends treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis.
- Assesses environment and patient’s safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition.
- Identifies risk factors, screening criteria, and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement).
- Completes assessments, group notes, and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements, as appropriate to scope.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patients’ discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge.
- Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.
What qualifications you will need:
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
- Masters Degree in Social Work required
Benefits
Portsmouth Regional Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
At Portsmouth Regional Hospital, you're not just joining a hospital—you’re becoming part of a mission-driven team that’s redefining healthcare excellence across the Seacoast region. As a 240-bed acute care facility in Portsmouth, NH, we proudly serve communities throughout New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. We’re the only hospital in the area to be recognized as an ACS Verified Level II Trauma Center and a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and we offer a robust heart and vascular program—giving our team the opportunity to work at the forefront of life-saving care.
As part of the HCA Healthcare family, you’ll be supported by one of the nation’s leading healthcare systems, with a strong presence in New Hampshire that includes four hospitals, three freestanding emergency rooms, and over 70 care sites. Here, nearly 5,000 colleagues—including 1,500 nurses and 1,000 affiliated physicians—collaborate to deliver exceptional care and innovation every day. Whether you're at Portsmouth, Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, Parkland Medical Center in Derry, Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, or one of our emergency facilities in Seabrook, Dover, or Plaistow, you’ll find a culture that values your expertise, supports your growth, and empowers you to make a real difference.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our MSW Social Worker Outpatient Behavioral Health opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in behavioral health social worker jobs.
- Master's degree in social work (MSW) from a CSWE-accredited program
- Active state clinical license such as LCSW, LMSW, or equivalent
- Experience conducting biopsychosocial assessments and treatment planning
- Proficiency with an electronic health record system for clinical documentation
- Knowledge of crisis intervention protocols and de-escalation techniques
- Familiarity with Medicaid billing, managed care requirements, and service authorization processes
Tips for Your Behavioral Health Social Worker Job Search
Lead your resume with licensure status
Hiring managers for behavioral health roles scan for LCSW, LMSW, LSW, or CADC credentials before reading anything else. Put your licensure, state, and expiration date in your resume header so it's visible immediately, not buried in a separate section.
Match your clinical hours to the posting
Many postings specify a minimum number of supervised clinical hours for licensure-track roles. When your hours meet the threshold, state the exact count in your resume summary so screeners don't disqualify you before the phone screen.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists behavioral health social worker openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by population served
Behavioral health job listings are often written around a specific population: children and adolescents, adults with severe mental illness, veterans, or justice-involved individuals. Filter your search by those terms so you're applying to roles where your direct experience is an exact match.
Prepare a supervision and caseload narrative
Interviewers routinely ask about your caseload size, documentation system, and how you managed competing priorities. Prepare a specific example that covers all three, including the EHR platform you used, so your answer sounds operational rather than theoretical.
Negotiate start date around license transfer timelines
If you're relocating and need to transfer or reciprocate your clinical license to a new state, build that timeline into your start date conversation. Some states take six to twelve weeks to process endorsement applications, and naming that proactively signals professionalism.
Behavioral Health Social Worker Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most behavioral health social workers?
The most active employers for behavioral health social workers right now are Sutter Health, US Department of Veterans Affairs, and SAS Healthtech, and the most openings are in Florida, Ohio, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is highest at community mental health centers, integrated hospital systems, and government-funded behavioral health agencies.
How many behavioral health social worker jobs are remote?
About 30% of behavioral health social worker openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with availability varying significantly by role type. Telehealth therapy, care coordination, and utilization review positions are the most likely to offer remote or hybrid schedules, while crisis response, inpatient, and school-based roles typically require in-person presence.
How do you become a behavioral health social worker?
You start by completing a Bachelor of Social Work or a related undergraduate degree, then earn a Master of Social Work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. After graduating, you accumulate the supervised clinical hours your state requires, pass the Association of Social Work Boards licensing exam at the appropriate level, and apply for your state clinical license before practicing independently.
How do you get hired as a behavioral health social worker with little or no experience?
Focus on roles labeled as associate, clinical intern, or licensure-track, which are structured for candidates still accumulating supervised hours. Highlight field placement experience with a specific population, any crisis line or case management volunteer work, and your proficiency with documentation. Some employers, particularly community mental health centers and federally qualified health centers, actively hire pre-licensed candidates and provide the supervision required for licensure.
What does the behavioral health social worker interview process look like?
Most employers start with a phone or video screen focused on licensure status and clinical background, followed by a panel interview with a clinical supervisor and sometimes a program director. You'll typically be asked behavioral and situational questions about risk assessment, documentation practices, and managing ethical dilemmas. Some organizations include a brief case presentation or written scenario as part of the process before extending an offer.
Where can I find and apply to behavioral health social worker jobs?
You can find and apply to behavioral health social worker jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search for roles that match your licensure level, clinical specialization, and preferred setting, then apply directly to each listing that fits your background.
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