Medical Social Worker, Per Diem, Home Health
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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
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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