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Social Worker MSW (Per Diem) - Inpatient Specialty Program

Social WorkerIncludes callPer Diem

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Job Description

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters.

This shared culture of passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it’s just one of the many reasons we’ve achieved our six-consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence.

From working with a team of premier healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have everything you need to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others. Join us and discover why we are tied #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.

The Social Worker MSW in Inpatient Specialty Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California provides a full range of social work services in collaboration with other Cedars-Sinai Medical Center staff to meet the psychosocial and discharge planning needs of patients/families/significant others.

Active participation in Department's continuing education/staff development programs. Involved in program planning in assigned service areas along with the organization of social work activities. Provides social work services to patients and their families with psychosocial needs.

To assure patients receive benefit from medical and/or psychiatric care and post-hospital planning.

What's This Role All About?

  • Psychosocial evaluation -- identification of problems affecting efficient patient care and the development of a treatment plan.
  • Crisis intervention.
  • Individual and family counseling.
  • Discharge planning and case coordination.
  • Interdisciplinary discussion of psychosocial implications of illness including consultation regarding treatments and resources designed to tackle the problems of the patients.
  • Develops and maintains positive relationships with community health, welfare, and social agencies.
  • Initiates program planning and development in assigned services/programs.

This is a Per Diem position.

Key Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive social work services to patients and families in an inpatient specialty program, focusing on psychosocial needs and discharge planning. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop treatment plans and maintain relationships with community health agencies.

Requirements

Requires a Master's Degree in Social Work and preferably a CA LCSW license. Preference is given to candidates with 2 years of clinical social work experience in an acute care hospital setting.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Individual CounselingInterdisciplinary CollaborationPatient Advocacy

Social Worker Career Context

In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$95k (578 salary observations; 1,628 listings), vs ~$81k nationally (4,288 salary observations; 19,691 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 20% have no call, 56% require no weekends.

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).

Top contract/1099 Social Worker Jobs

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Salary Distribution50 jobs · 43 employers

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<$105k
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$105k-120k
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$120k-135k
10
$135k-150k
1
$157k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks35 jobs

401k / retirement match
89%
CME allowance
29% this job
Sign-on bonus
26%
Loan repayment
20%
PSLF eligible
14%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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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 6,492 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Beverly Hills

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$2.58M
Typical market rent
$4,193/mo
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
113.6
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 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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