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Piedmont Healthcare
Athens, Georgia

Social Worker MSW

Social WorkerFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Experience the Advantages of Real Career Change

Join Piedmont to move your career in the right direction. Stay for the diverse teams you’ll love, a shared purpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work.

You’ll feel valued, motivated to be your best, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes. Piedmont leaders are in your corner, invested in your success. Our wellness programs and comprehensive total benefits and rewards meet your needs today, and help you plan for the future.

Responsibilities

This position strives to promote patient and family wellness, improved care outcomes, access to appropriate hospital and community resources, and manages, supports and develops comprehensive transitional care plans for patients with complex and psychosocial needs in Inpatient and Emergency Department (ED) environments. Works to promote quality of care and effective transitions planning through collaboration with all service team members, physicians, patients, external agencies and families.

Qualifications

  • Education
  • Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited social work program is Required
  • Work Experience
  • No experience required Required
  • Licenses and Certifications
  • None Required
  • Accredited Case Manager (ACM) Preferred or
  • CCM - Certified Case Manager Preferred or
  • LMSW - Licensed Masters Social Worker Preferred
  • Business Unit: Company Name
  • Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Case managementTransitional care planningPsychosocial assessmentPatient advocacyCare coordination

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 26% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Social Work by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingGeorgia index 96.3US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in Georgia132 active6,470 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 42% remote · 26% no call · 72% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedGeorgia Social Worker listings: 6% state a sign-on bonus · 7% offer loan repayment141 active listings, Nov 2026
New Social Work listings2,430 in the last 30 days1,521 the 30 days before (+60%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Social Work pay trend−1.4% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Social Worker Jobs

37 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

30 jobs · 26 employers
9
<$90k
7
$90k-110k
10
$110k-130k
4
$130k-150k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

26 jobs
401k / retirement match
96%
Sign-on bonus
31%
CME allowance
27%
Loan repayment
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Temporary Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C)Contract

Adelphi Staffing · Frederick, Maryland

$65/hr
#2

Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C) - Full School YearContract

Adelphi Staffing · Frederick, Maryland

$65/hr
#3

Clinical Supervisor - CT - LPC or LCSW

$55.85 - $64.79/hr
#4

Licensed Mental Health Therapist (LMFT, LCSW, LPCC)

$117k-$134k
+ 35 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,359 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Piedmont Healthcare

Medical Practices
Statesville, NC
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive benefits package
Wellness programs
Schedule flexibility

Living in Athens

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$329k
Typical market rent
$1,782/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.3
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026).

BEA 2024 · Athens-Clarke County, GA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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