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Shriners Children's
Springfield, Massachusetts

Social Worker

Social WorkerFull-Time

Listed compensation

$67K - $100K

The week · per this posting

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact.

We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Description

Job Summary

The Social Worker at Shriners Hospitals for Children provides comprehensive psychosocial assessment, intervention, and support to patients and families facing complex medical conditions and hospitalizations. This role focuses on empowering families, advocating for patient needs, and facilitating access to community resources to promote optimal patient well-being and successful reintegration.

Key Responsibilities

Documents assessments, interventions, plans and evaluations in accordance with regulatory agency requirements and SHC policy.

Coordinates the plan of care plan to achieve desired outcomes and integrates the work of the health care team by coordinating resources and services necessary to accomplish agreed-upon goals.

Advocates by supporting or recommending services for the protection of the patient's health, safety and rights.

Collaborates by working with patients, families, caregivers and the health care team locally and within the system to jointly communicate, problem solve and share accountability for optimal outcomes.

Arranges services among community agencies, physicians, patients, family, caregivers and others involved in the plan of care.

Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Experience conducting and documenting psychosocial assessments and interventions to meet physical, functional, social, emotional, educational needs of the patient/caregivers, required

  • Social Work license in state of practice
  • Demonstrated competency in Microsoft Office Suite™

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3 years' experience
  • Experience in a Healthcare setting with community and national resource navigation and coordination, payment methodologies, mitigating psychosocial barriers to patient/family adherence, in a Pediatric setting
  • Current Case Management Certification (CMC, ACM or ANCC)

Bilingual in English/Spanish

The pay range for this position is $32.15 - $48.23. Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a valid Social Work license in the state of practice and have experience conducting psychosocial assessments. Preferred qualifications include three years of experience in a pediatric healthcare setting and current Case Management certification.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient advocacyCare coordinationCrisis interventionMicrosoft Office SuitePediatric careInterdisciplinary collaborationDocumentationCommunity outreachPatient support

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Social Worker at Shriners Children's a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 15% of all social worker listings evaluated on our platform.

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Worker listings this role was benchmarked against, 26% are remote, 30% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

Social Worker pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.9% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$40k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $38k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
18%
Loan repayment
18%
PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

7.2/ 10
Listing-based score

Living in Springfield

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$310k≈ 9.7× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,853/mo≈ 69% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
96.1
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Springfield, MA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Shriners Children's

Hospitals and Health Care
Montreal, Quebec
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Forbes Best Mid-Sized Employer 2025