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Dearborn, Michigan

LEAD SOCIAL WORKER

Social WorkerFull-Time

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Social Worker
  • Full-Time
  • Metropolitan Behavioral Health (a UHS Facility)

A growing 144-bed behavioral health facility – Metropolitan Behavioral Hospital provides a full continuum of inpatient services across the entire patient population, including specialty programs to serve adolescents, adults and older adults, and perform behavioral health assessments 24 hours a day.

Additionally, programs for co-occurring behavioral health and substance use issues are offered to meet the unique needs of this patient population. The facility provides a robust outpatient program utilizing a combination of group, family and individual therapy.

For more information, please visit our website: metropolitanbh.com

Position Summary

The Social Services Lead position reports to the Director of Clinical Services, and will assist with the following responsibilities:

Assists with maintaining the daily Assessments Audit, including monitoring the addition of new patients, ensuring timeliness of the Psychosocial Assessment & the Master Treatment Plan, and ensuring timeliness and completion of collateral contacts

As needed, the Lead will assist with scheduling treatment teams for each unit, and ensuring the audit is updated to reflect master and updated treatment teams were held for respective patients.

  • Assists with ensuring a timely and effective workflow with discharges, discharge planning, and pre-admits.
  • Will back up the Director of Clinical services in their absence, ensuring assignments, groups, and discharges are completed as needed.
  • Will assist in completing New Hire Orientation for new staff in the event the DSC is not able to.
  • Assists with ensuring all utilization management request are completed in the chart in a timely manner.
  • These duties will fluctuate as needed, and additional responsibilities may be added as appropriate, based on the needs of the hospital, individual units, and staff.
  • Benefit Highlights
  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan

SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
  • More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: uhsguest.com

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing since its inception into a Fortune 500 corporation.

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 99,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates 28 acute care hospitals, 331 behavioral health facilities, 60 outpatient and other facilities in 39 U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

  • Education: MSW required
  • Licensure: LLMSW or LMSW
  • Experience: previous behavioral health experience required

EEO Statement

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Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Social WorkTreatment PlanningAssessment AuditingStaff SupervisionCrisis InterventionPatient AssessmentTeam Coordination

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 34% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Social Work by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingMichigan index 96.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in Michigan247 active6,524 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 44% remote · 34% no call · 60% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Social Worker Jobs

39 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

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<$75k
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10
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

30 jobs · 27 employers
401k / retirement match
97% this job
Sign-on bonus
33%
CME allowance
27%
Loan repayment
7% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,518 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About UHS

Hospitals and Health Care
Aiken, South Carolina
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive Compensation
Generous Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental, Vision
Prescription Drug Plans
401(K) with company match
Discounted stock plan
SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
Career development opportunities

Living in Dearborn

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$249k
Typical market rent
$1,805/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
100.3
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.