Medical Social Worker - Part-Time
Listed compensation
$113,672.00 /Hr
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- Employment & setting
- Part-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
Responsibilities
What You Will Do
The Medical Social Worker utilizes social work expertise and clinical knowledge to educate patients on the best choices for treatment, health, and wellness when living with kidney disease to enhance quality of life.
The Medical Social Worker is responsible for supporting the social and emotional well-being of patients at Satellite Healthcare.
The Social Worker conducts psychosocial assessments, participates in care planning and team review of the patient's current psychosocial needs, and provides management of services to patients to assist them in coping with issues associated with chronic kidney disease and dialysis treatments.
What We Expect of You
You will play a vital role to ensure that we deliver on our Mission to make life better for those with kidney disease and our Vision to be unsurpassed in our individualized experience, our quality, and our compassion. You approach your work with an indisputable sense of greater purpose. Lastly, you are high energy, seek out opportunities to improve the environment for patients and staff, are goal-oriented, and gain deep satisfaction from building relationships.
What You Will GAIN
Relationships: You will work directly with a multi-disciplinary team that is as passionate as you in making a difference in others' lives. You will become a servant leader, bringing up your team to provide care that is unsurpassed by others in our industry.
Impact: You will set the tone that enables our patients to live a better life and address their needs holistically. You will make a difference for our patients so that they do dialysis to live instead of living for dialysis.
Growth: You will have formal and informal opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment. You will become a subject-matter expert and have a wide range of opportunities for career advancement.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience:
Preferable experience in other health and human services fields. Medical experience is highly desirable. One (1) year of work experience in a behavioral or healthcare-related setting, preferred.
Education
Master's Degree in Social Work from an accredited CSWE institution
License/Certifications
MSW required. LCSW/ACSW required, LCSW preferred (CA). Licensure/LMSW required in states with licensure (TX, TN)
Qualifications
What You Will Do
The Medical Social Worker utilizes social work expertise and clinical knowledge to educate patients on the best choices for treatment, health, and wellness when living with kidney disease to enhance quality of life.
The Medical Social Worker is responsible for supporting the social and emotional well-being of patients at Satellite Healthcare.
The Social Worker conducts psychosocial assessments, participates in care planning and team review of the patient's current psychosocial needs, and provides management of services to patients to assist them in coping with issues associated with chronic kidney disease and dialysis treatments.
What We Expect of You
You will play a vital role to ensure that we deliver on our Mission to make life better for those with kidney disease and our Vision to be unsurpassed in our individualized experience, our quality, and our compassion. You approach your work with an indisputable sense of greater purpose. Lastly, you are high energy, seek out opportunities to improve the environment for patients and staff, are goal-oriented, and gain deep satisfaction from building relationships.
What You Will GAIN
Relationships: You will work directly with a multi-disciplinary team that is as passionate as you in making a difference in others' lives. You will become a servant leader, bringing up your team to provide care that is unsurpassed by others in our industry.
Impact: You will set the tone that enables our patients to live a better life and address their needs holistically. You will make a difference for our patients so that they do dialysis to live instead of living for dialysis.
Growth: You will have formal and informal opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment. You will become a subject-matter expert and have a wide range of opportunities for career advancement.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience:
Preferable experience in other health and human services fields. Medical experience is highly desirable. One (1) year of work experience in a behavioral or healthcare-related setting, preferred.
Education
Master's Degree in Social Work from an accredited CSWE institution
License/Certifications
MSW required. LCSW/ACSW required, LCSW preferred (CA). Licensure/LMSW required in states with licensure (TX, TN)
Pay Range
USD $81,193.00 - USD $113,672.00 /Hr.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Medical Social Worker - Part-Time at U.S. Renal Care a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Social Work — ranked against 6,104 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc.
Social Worker Career Context
In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$93k (246 salary observations; 510 listings), vs ~$82k nationally (1,980 salary observations; 6,468 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, 32% are remote, 24% have no call, 46% require no weekends.
Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
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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