Hospice Medical Social Worker-per diem
Listed compensation
$70-$100/hr
The week · per this posting
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.
Job Description
- Benefits/Perks
- Flexible Scheduling
- Competitive Compensation
- Careers Advancement
Job Summary
We are looking for a qualified Medical Social Worker to join our team! You will play a crucial role in evaluating patients and developing individual treatment plans in collaboration with patients’ physicians.
Operating with professional expertise and deep care for patients, you are a natural problem solver and self-starter. You enjoy working in fast-paced environments that afford you the autonomy to bring your best.
Responsibilities
- Implement standards of care for medical social work services
- Participate in patients’ plans of care.
- Perform patient evaluations and help develop a treatment plan with patients’ physicians
- Assess the psychosocial status of the patients as related to their illness
- Make follow-up visits to assess and continue the plans of care
- Plan interventions based on patient's needs and findings
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records
- Bereavement Assessments and plans of care
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in social work
- Minimum one year of experience in Hospice social work
- Current CPR certification
- Valid driver’s license
- License preferred
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Key Skills
Social Worker Career Context
In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$99k (431 salary observations; 1,009 listings), vs ~$82k nationally (3,179 salary observations; 11,717 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 46 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 28% are remote, 15% have no call, 46% require no weekends.
Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$177k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $160k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in Riverside
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $602k
- Typical market rent
- $2,444/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 31 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 106.4
- 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 · Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.