Medical Social Worker

Social WorkerNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$30-$37/hr

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Job Description

Job Details: Job Location: Rocky Mountain Home Health and Hospice-Tooele - Tooele, UT, Position Type: Full Time, Salary Range: $30.00 - $37.00Hourly, Job Shift: Day, Medical Social Worker (MSW) – Home Health & Hospice Location: Tooele, Utah Company: Rocky Mountain Care Service Line: Home Health & Hospice Make a Difference Where It Matters Most At Rocky Mountain Care, we believe every patient deserves Simply the Best Care — compassionate, individualized care that respects dignity, supports independence, and focuses on what matters most to each person and family.

We are seeking a compassionate and skilled Medical Social Worker (MSW) to join our Home Health & Hospice team based out of Tooele, Utah.

This is an opportunity to do meaningful work in the lives of patients and families while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team dedicated to quality care and exceptional service.

If you are a social worker who brings empathy, clinical skill, professionalism, and a genuine desire to help patients navigate some of life's most important moments, we would love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

As a Medical Social Worker, you will provide social work services to patients and families receiving home health and hospice care. Your responsibilities will include: Providing psychosocial assessment, counseling, support, and social work services to patients and families.

Helping patients and families navigate emotional, social, financial, and community-resource needs. Supporting patients and families as they make decisions and plan for changing healthcare needs. Providing compassionate emotional support related to serious illness, end-of-life care, grief, loss, and life transitions.

Connecting patients and families with appropriate community resources and support services. Participating as an active member of the interdisciplinary team (IDT). Communicating effectively with patients, families, physicians, nurses, therapists, and other members of the care team.

Completing accurate and timely clinical documentation in accordance with applicable regulations and organizational standards. Supporting individualized care plans that promote dignity, comfort, quality of life, and patient independence.

Maintaining professional standards while managing multiple patients, priorities, and deadlines. What We're Looking For Master of Social Work (MSW) degree. Current, unencumbered Utah social work licensure appropriate for the position. Strong clinical, organizational, assessment, and communication skills.

Ability to work effectively with patients, families, caregivers, and interdisciplinary healthcare professionals. Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet documentation and scheduling deadlines. Compassion, professionalism, integrity, and respect for patients and families.

Home health, hospice, medical social work, palliative care, or healthcare experience is strongly preferred. Come be part of a team committed to providing Simply the Best Care to the patients and families we serve. Rocky Mountain Care — Compassionate Care. Meaningful Work. Stronger Communities.

Rocky Mountain Care is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

The Medical Social Worker provides psychosocial assessments, counseling, and support to patients and families within a home health and hospice setting. They also collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to coordinate care plans and connect patients with necessary community resources.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree and possess a current, unencumbered Utah social work license. Previous experience in home health, hospice, or medical social work is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Case managementInterdisciplinary collaborationGrief supportCommunity resource coordinationPatient advocacyHealthcare communicationCrisis interventionCare planning

Social Worker Career Context

In Utah, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$90k (12 salary observations; 25 listings), vs ~$83k nationally (1,565 salary observations; 4,512 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, 68% are remote, 34% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is down 2.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Utah is 98.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$70k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $70k in an average-cost state. 58.6% of Utah clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks38 jobs · 14 employers

401k / retirement match
100%
Sign-on bonus
61%
CME allowance
24%
Loan repayment
5%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 5.1
Better work-life than 40% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,304 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Tooele

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$410k
Typical market rent
$1,474/mo
Residents’ average commute
31 min
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

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

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