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Social Worker (Travel) - MSW - $2,173/wk - Mission Viejo, CA

Social WorkerIncludes weekendsNo nightsContract

Listed compensation

$2,173/wk

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Job Description

Social Worker (Travel) - MSW - Mission Viejo, CA

VitalHire is hiring a travel Social Worker (MSW) for an acute care hospital in Mission Viejo, CA.

Contract Details

  • Weekly pay: $2,173/wk
  • Stipend: includes a housing and meals stipend of up to $1,995/wk where eligible (GSA FY2027 max for this location)
  • Shift: Day (5x8 Hours) 8:00 16:30
  • Duration: 13 weeks
  • Start date: 11/9/2026
  • Openings: 2

About the Assignment

  • - Floating Expectation: Laguna Facility
  • - First Time Traveler: HARDSTOP NO 1ST TIME TRAVELER
  • - Ratios: Caseload of 20-23 patients
  • - Years of experience 1 full year of acute care experience is required redirect if they do not have.
  • - Weekend REQ: variable 5-day workweek with department operations occurring 7 days per week. Days off will vary and are not guaranteed to be back-to-back, although every
  • - CA state license: No
  • - Weekend REQ: variable 5-day workweek with department operations occurring 7 days per week. Days off will vary and are not guaranteed to be back-to-back, although every e
  • Overtime: 8 regular hours in a day OR 40 regular hours in 1 week: 1.3%

Requirements

  • Active license/certification for CA (compact accepted where applicable) and the MSW specialty
  • 1-2 years of recent MSW experience
  • MSW degree (state licensure as required), BLS if required

Key Responsibilities

The Social Worker will manage a caseload of 20-23 patients in an acute care hospital setting. Responsibilities include providing clinical social work services and floating between facilities as required.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Case managementPatient assessmentClinical documentation

Social Worker Career Context

In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (973 salary observations; 1,815 listings), vs ~$81k nationally (6,804 salary observations; 21,168 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, 30% are remote, 32% have no call, 76% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$113k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $102k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution35 jobs · 28 employers

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$130k-150k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks28 jobs

401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
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Relocation assistance
11%
PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 5.1
Better work-life than 40% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,543 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No nights
  • Includes weekends

Living in Mission Viejo

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.14M
Typical market rent
$3,144/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 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.