Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Home Health | O'ahu

Social WorkerFull-Time

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Job Description

Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Home Health.

Location: O’ahu

Always Best Care Senior Services - O’ahu is hiring a Medical Social Worker to join our home health team. You will help patients and families work through the emotional, financial, and practical challenges that come with illness and recovery, right in their own homes.

What You Will Do

  • Assess patients’ psychosocial and emotional needs, family dynamics, home environment, and financial concerns
  • Provide counseling, emotional support, crisis intervention, advocacy, and education
  • Connect patients and caregivers with community resources, including financial, housing, transportation, legal, and long-term care services
  • Support discharge planning and transitions of care
  • Coordinate with physicians, nurses, therapists, and the rest of the care team, and take part in case conferences
  • Keep accurate, timely assessments, visit notes, and progress documentation
  • Take part in quality improvement (QAPI) activities

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in social work
  • Current Hawaii LSW license that meets home health medical social services requirements
  • At least one year of experience in healthcare, home health, or social services preferred
  • Knowledge of community resources and social service programs
  • Strong assessment, counseling, communication, documentation, advocacy, and organizational skills
  • Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and automobile insurance when required by agency policy

Always Best Care provides equal employment opportunities.

Call 808-207-8558 [tel:808-207-8558] (available 24/7)

Key Responsibilities

The Medical Social Worker will assess patients' psychosocial needs and provide counseling, crisis intervention, and emotional support in their homes. They will also coordinate care with the multidisciplinary team and connect patients with essential community and financial resources.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Psychosocial assessmentCare coordinationCase managementCommunity resource navigation

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 28% have no call, 76% require no weekends.

Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Social Work by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedSocial Work median $72k (middle half $62k–$82k)332 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingHawaii index 110.0US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in Hawaii28 active6,470 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 46% remote · 28% no call · 76% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedUS Social Worker listings: 8% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 4% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
New Social Work listings2,430 in the last 30 days1,521 the 30 days before (+60%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Social Work pay trend−1.4% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,359 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Honolulu

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.20M
Typical market rent
$2,715/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
111.0
State income tax
Up to 11%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026).

BEA 2024 · Urban Honolulu, HI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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