Social Worker
Compensation
Pay not disclosed
- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job description
Join Kindred Healthcare as a Social Worker – Hospital Care Transitions in Watertown, Wisconsin, United States.
Work Schedule
- Full-Time position.
- No explicit call, weekend, or night shift information provided.
Apply to join Kindred Healthcare as a Social Worker – Hospital Care Transitions.
Key Responsibilities
Coordinates and executes social work functions by collaborating with the interdisciplinary care team to facilitate effective discharge planning. Provides ongoing psychosocial support, patient advocacy, and education to ensure continuity of care throughout the patient's hospital stay.
Requirements
Requires a graduate degree from an accredited program, with a Master of Social Work preferred. Candidates must have at least three years of healthcare experience, specifically in case management or discharge planning, and hold a valid state social work license.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Social Worker Career Context
In Wisconsin, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$80k (81 salary observations; 173 listings), vs ~$83k nationally (4,784 salary observations; 10,468 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 34% have no call, 70% require no weekends.
Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Wisconsin is 94.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.7% of Wisconsin clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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