Social Worker - Per Diem
Listed compensation
$40-$45/hr
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Job Description
- Job Location: La Mirada, CA 90638
- Position Type: PRNEducation
- Level: Graduate Degree
- Salary Range: $40.00 - $45.00 Hourly
- Job Shift: Any
- Job Category: SpecialtySOCIAL WORKER Vista Specialty Hospital Social Worker
Summary: Directs and coordinates the integration of Social Services functions into the patient care, discharge, and home planning processes with other hospital departments, external service organizations, agencies, and health care facilities; provides direct care to selected patients as appropriate; ensures compliance with quality patient care and regulatory standards.
Facilitates and coordinates hospital-wide discharge planning and support programs to ensure compliance with Joint Commission and other health care accrediting standards in order to enhance the quality of patient care consistent with hospital policies for the adult and geriatric patients, 18 years and over. Qualifications
Education: Master level Social Worker degree. Preferred Master level social worker/advanced clinical practitioner. LICSW or LGSW preferred Licenses/Certification: Current certification issued in the state of facility location. Experience: Minimum of three (3) years acute care experience to include experience in discharge planning procedures. Medicare/Medicaid guidelines/knowledge of community resources Safety Sensitive-Designated Position
Key Responsibilities
Directs and coordinates social services integration into patient care, discharge planning, and home planning processes. Ensures compliance with Joint Commission standards and hospital policies for adult and geriatric patients.
Requirements
Requires a Master level Social Worker degree and at least three years of acute care experience. Candidates must have knowledge of Medicare/Medicaid guidelines and discharge planning procedures.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Social Worker Career Context
In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (970 salary observations; 1,810 listings), vs ~$81k nationally (6,785 salary observations; 21,092 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 40 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 25% are remote, 23% have no call, 55% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- On-site
Living in La Mirada
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $863k
- Typical market rent
- $3,276/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 32 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 113.6
- 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 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.