Hospice Social Worker
Listed compensation
$69k-$92k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Founded as Boulder Hospice in 1976, TRU Community Care is a nonprofit healthcare organization serving Boulder, Denver, and surrounding counties. With a mission to affirm life at every step of the journey with illness and loss, TRU provides a continuum of care through TRU Hospice, TRU PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), TRU Palliative Care, TRU Grief Services, and Landmark Memory Care.
Title: Hospice Medical Social Worker
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am to 5pm
Location: Longmont, Berthoud, & Loveland. This role is primarily spent out and about in the community, meeting with patients and their families in home and facility settings.
- MSW/LSW Pay: $68,580 to $85,812 per year
- LCSW Pay: $73,354 to $91,750 per year
- Sign-On Bonus: $6,000 (fully paid within the 1st year after hire)
Job Summary
The Social Worker is responsible for providing psychosocial services for the team caseload. Provides direct services to patient and family, collaborates with the other Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) members within the care team and other health care providers in various care settings.
Essential Duties
Identifies the patient’s and family’s psychosocial, environmental, safety and developmental needs and participates in individualizing the patient’s plan of care based on those needs
- Incorporates patient/family preferences and goals within the plan of care
- Supports and respects the patient’s and family’s unique spiritual and cultural beliefs
- Facilitates family meetings
- Identifies community resources for the patient and families
Participates in IDT, psycho-spiritual and other patient-related meetings; attends patient care conferences in LTC and AL facilities, as needed
Education and Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited Master’s Degree in Social Work program
- One year of experience in care setting that delivers end-of-life care, highly preferred
- Must possess CPR certification or be able to obtain within 60 days of hire
- Must successfully pass agency required background checks and drug screening
- Must possess a valid driver’s license, have reliable transportation, and auto insurance.
TRU's Benefits (Eligibility Varies by Position/Status)
- Paid Vacation time
- 401(k) with match
- Health, dental, vision & life insurance
- FSA & HSA available
- Paid orientation
- Paid training
- PSLF Eligible Employer
- Referral & signing bonuses (if applicable)
- To learn more about TRU Community Care, please visit trucare.org.
TRU Community Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Key Responsibilities
The Social Worker provides psychosocial services to patients and families while collaborating with the interdisciplinary care team. They are responsible for identifying patient needs, facilitating family meetings, and developing individualized plans of care.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Master’s Degree in Social Work and possess a valid driver's license with reliable transportation. One year of experience in end-of-life care is highly preferred, and CPR certification is required within 60 days of hire.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Hospice Social Worker at St. Paul's Senior Services a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Social Work social worker listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
Social Worker Career Context
In Colorado, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$87k (29 salary observations; 53 listings), vs ~$82k nationally (1,119 salary observations; 3,157 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, 46% are remote, 30% have no call, 74% require no weekends.
Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is down 6.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$80k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $78k in an average-cost state. 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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