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New York, New York

Social Worker - Partial Hospitalization (Per Diem)

Social WorkerIncludes callNo weekendsPer Diem

Listed compensation

$86.9K - $106.9K

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Posted 6mo ago

Job Description

Shift Details

Shift varies as needed Monday through Friday, 7am-3pm or 9am-5pm

Job Description

Provides individual, and/or group work services to patients and/or their families in various health care settings. Utilizes psychosocial assessment skills to deliver social work services.

Job Responsibility

  • Provides culturally competent direct service to patients and their families using a variety of social work modalities in order to help individuals maximize their functioning.
  • Utilizes high risk criteria and/or consultation referrals to identify patients in need of or who could benefit from social work assessment and intervention. Advocates on behalf of the individual to ensure maximum access to health care, assesses barriers and offers solutions.
  • Provides interdisciplinary team with assessment findings and suggests potential impact on overall care of patient.
  • Provides psycho education, counseling, and crisis intervention to patients and their families.
  • Formulates and implements treatment and discharge plans that are safe and timely and in line with the expectations of the site and promote patient choice. Initiates communication with post-acute providers and payers as needed.
  • Incorporates knowledge of community resource sand entitlement programs in all planning.
  • Maintains appropriate professional patient care documentation as defined by site policies and procedures.
  • Represents department and profession is various hospital/site based committees and work groups.
  • May assign and monitor undergraduate and graduate level Social Work students; assigns cases to students and monitors work through weekly supervisory meetings; writes all required evaluations of student’s field placement performance.
  • Consults with program management regarding student’s training program, progress, development, and placement experience; meets with student’s faculty advisor at prescribed intervals.
  • Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

  • Master of Social Work required.
  • Current License to practice as a Master Social Worker, or Current License to practice as a Clinical Social Worker in New York State required, plus specialized certifications as needed.
  • 1-3 years of relevant experience, required.
  • Outpatient adolescent and adult experience, highly preferred.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e. g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

Key Responsibilities

Provides individual and group social work services, including psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, and counseling to patients and their families. Formulates and implements safe treatment and discharge plans while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team.

Requirements

Requires a Master of Social Work degree and a current New York State license as a Master Social Worker or Clinical Social Worker. Candidates must have 1-3 years of relevant experience, with outpatient adolescent and adult experience being highly preferred.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Treatment planningDischarge planningPsychoeducationCulturally competent careCase managementInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient advocacySupervision of students

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Social Worker - Partial Hospitalization (Per Diem) at Northwell a 6.8 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Social Work — ranked against 6,365 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 40 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 18% have no call, 65% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Social Work by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.8 / 10 · top 25% in social workranked against 6,365 Social Work listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Cost of livingNew York index 107.9US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in New York609 active6,498 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 40% remote · 18% no call · 65% no weekends40 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedNew York Social Worker listings: 4% state a sign-on bonus (median $4k) · 6% offer loan repayment670 active listings, Nov 2026
New Social Work listings2,510 in the last 30 days1,443 the 30 days before (+74%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (6,365 Social Work listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 80% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,365 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • Includes call

Living in New York

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$875k
Typical market rent
$4,089/mo
Residents’ average commute
40 min
State income tax
Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology

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

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