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BAYADA Home Health Care
Joplin, Missouri

Medical Social Worker, Per Diem, Home Health

Social WorkerNo callPer Diem

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Job Description

Per Diem Medical Social Worker (MSW)

Reduce stress and burnout! Provide clinical care where patients want to be – in the comfort of their own home.

  • Why you’ll love what you do at Integrity Home Care + Hospice:
  • Experience true work/life balance with flexible full-time, part-time, and per diem schedules
  • Perform 1:1 direct care in client homes
  • Hands-on training supplemented with virtual learning
  • 24/7 clinical support as part of a larger interdisciplinary care team
  • Advance your career with clinical and business leadership tracks

We are recruiting for a compassionate Medical Social Worker (MSW) to reliably serve patients in the Joplin, MO and surrounding areas. This is a Per Diem (PRN) position.

What You’ll Do

Visit a variety of clients in their own home, helping them recover from an injury, illness, surgery, or hospitalization.

  • Assist our team in understanding the social and emotional factors related to our clients’ health problems.
  • Provide clinical/social evaluations and plan appropriate interventions based on evaluation findings.
  • Identify appropriate community resource referrals to address the client’s and the family’s practical and environmental needs.
  • Act as an advocate for both the client and the family to navigate the patient through the community system.
  • Participate in the development of the total plan of care with the multidisciplinary team of BAYADA clinicians, as appropriate.
  • Develop and maintain contracts with public and private agencies as resources for the patient.

Educate and instruct patients, family members, or other patient representatives in community resources to promote the patient's health, safety, well-being, and independent living.

What You Should Have

  • A minimum of a Masters in Social Work, with at least 2 years of community-based experience.
  • Accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education, as demonstrated by school transcript or degree.

Previous home health care experience welcomed, but not required. We will train you!

Ability to travel locally to cases as assigned

Benefits May Include

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Mileage reimbursement
  • Paid time off
  • Weekly pay and direct deposit
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Continued education, training, and tuition reimbursement

As an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider, BAYADA complies with all state/local mandates.

BAYADA is celebrating 50 years of compassion, excellence, and reliability. Learn more about our 50th anniversary celebration and how you can join in here.

BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc., and its associated entities and joint venture partners, are Equal Opportunity Employers.

All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

Key Responsibilities

Provide clinical and social evaluations for patients in their homes to support recovery from illness, injury, or surgery. Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop care plans and advocate for patients by connecting them with necessary community resources.

Requirements

Requires a Master's degree in Social Work and at least 2 years of community-based experience. Candidates must be able to travel locally to patient homes as assigned.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Case managementPatient advocacyCommunity resource referralInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient educationCrisis interventionEmotional supportCare planningDocumentation

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Medical Social Worker, Per Diem, Home Health at BAYADA Home Health Care a 6.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Social Work — ranked against 6,508 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Social Worker Career Context

In Missouri, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$88k (17 salary observations; 81 listings), vs ~$81k nationally (1,517 salary observations; 4,492 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 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, 34% are remote, 26% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution33 jobs · 32 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
96% this job
Sign-on bonus
38%
CME allowance
29%
Loan repayment
8%
PSLF eligible
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 6.9
Better work-life than 80% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,508 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call

Living in Joplin

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$206k
Typical market rent
$1,237/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

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

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About BAYADA Home Health Care

Hospitals and Health Care
Pennsauken Township, New Jersey
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
Mileage reimbursement
Paid time off
Weekly pay and direct deposit
401(k) with company match
Continued education, training, and tuition reimbursement