Social Worker MSW
Listed compensation
$42.61-$49.92/hr
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.
Job Description
Social Services Worker II is assigned to manage the patient’s case from admission through discharge. This role ensures that the various disciplines, goals and strategies are coordinated and integrated.
This person assists patients and their families to understand and cope with emotional and social problems which affect their health status and is responsible for ensuring that everything which needs to occur for a given patient does.
The Social Worker must possess good organization skills in order to effectively manage the cases assigned.
Requirements
1. Master of Social Work or Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
2. Current BCLS upon hire. MAB/CPI required within 60 days of hire and annually thereafter.
3. Experience with inpatient behavioral health preferred
4. Ability to work flexible hours.
Key Responsibilities
The Social Worker manages patient cases from admission to discharge, ensuring coordinated care and goal integration. They provide emotional and social support to patients and their families to assist with health-related challenges.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Social Worker Career Context
In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (944 salary observations; 1,766 listings), vs ~$81k nationally (6,661 salary observations; 20,737 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, 38% are remote, 32% have no call, 64% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$96k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $87k 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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Living in Anaheim
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $919k
- Typical market rent
- $2,759/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.