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El Camino Health
Mountain View, California

Social Worker - PD - Days - Social Work - MV

Social WorkerPer Diem

Listed compensation

$56.76-$75.47/hr

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Job Description

El Camino Health is committed to hiring, retaining and growing the best and brightest professionals who will carry our mission and vision forward. We are proud of our reputation in the community: One built on compassion, innovation, collaboration and delivering high-quality care. Come join the team that makes this happen.

Applicants MUST apply for position(s) by submitting a separate application for each individual job posting number they are interested in being considered for.

  • FTE
  • 0
  • Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours
  • 0

Work Shift

Day: 8 hours

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

  • Completes psychosocial assessments of patients to evaluate patient needs.
  • Supports patients and families to cope with hospitalization and/or new diagnosis.

Provides support with crisis interventions, grief/bereavement counseling, facilitates family meetings and prepares reports and documents concerning patients.

Collaborates with care providers including substance abuse navigators, psychiatrists and other specialists in developing treatment recommendations.

Creates and updates a database of home and community-based psychosocial resources for assigned caseload and for use by the multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in social work (MSW) from an accredited school of social work.
  • Knowledge of Child Protection Service (CPS) and Adult Protection Service (APS) mandatory reporting laws.

Two years’ experience in the provision of social services and/or discharge planning in the post-acute care setting preferred.

Knowledge of basic medical terminology and understanding of chronic and acute disease and how this impacts patients and families functioning.

  • Advanced communication skills, models clear communication and conflict resolution skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office and electronic medical records license/certification/registration requirements.
  • License/Certification/Registration Requirements
  • None
  • Ages of Patients Served
  • This position will serve all age groups.

Salary Range

$56.76 - $75.47 USD Hour

The Physical Requirements and Working Conditions of this job are available. El Camino Health will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability if that will allow them to perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so creates an undue hardship for the hospital, or causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace which cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation.

Sedentary Work - Duties performed mostly while sitting; walking and standing at times. Occasionally lift or carry up to 10 lbs. Uses hands and fingers. - (Physical Requirements-United States of America)

An Equal Opportunity Employer

El Camino Health seeks and values a diverse workforce. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of qualifications and competencies.

El Camino Health prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, ancestry, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, marital status, age, medical condition or any other status protected by law.

In addition to state and federal law, El Camino Health also follows all applicable fair and equitable employment policies from the County of Santa Clara.

Key Responsibilities

The social worker completes psychosocial assessments to evaluate patient needs and provides crisis intervention and grief counseling. They also collaborate with care providers to develop treatment recommendations and maintain a database of community-based resources.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Psychosocial assessmentChild protection service lawsAdult protection service lawsCase managementMultidisciplinary collaboration

Social Worker Career Context

In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$98k (195 salary observations; 355 listings), vs ~$82k nationally (1,119 salary observations; 3,157 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 41 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 32% have no call, 39% require no weekends.

Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is down 6.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$138k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $124k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Social Worker Jobs

41 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution28 jobs · 25 employers

7
<$90k
1
$95k
10
$110k-130k
9
$130k-150k
1
$157k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks20 jobs

401k / retirement match
95%
CME allowance
25%
Sign-on bonus
15%
Loan repayment
5%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,205 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Mountain View

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$2.08M
Typical market rent
$4,536/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
110.4
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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