CLIN SOCIAL WORKER 3
Compensation
Pay not listed
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
Ask the employer about the pay range, the work setting, weekend coverage and time off.
Job Description
At UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, we recognize the challenges and stress that hospitalization, illness, or injury can bring to patients and their families.
Clinical Social Workers play a key role in helping patients and families navigate these psychological stressors, providing support across all areas of the hospital. As integral members of the healthcare team, our Social Workers strive to reduce health disparities.
The Clinical Social Worker II or Clinical Social Worker III (LCSW) will provide comprehensive psychosocial support to patients and families within UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital – San Francisco in Adolescent Medicine in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Responsibilities include psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, counseling, brief therapeutic interventions, consultation, education, community linkage, and facilitating the plan of care across the healthcare continuum.
The CSW II/III collaborates with the care team to coordinate resources and services, ensuring timely and safe discharges while addressing patients’ psychosocial needs. They act as consultants to service lines, clinical teams, and departments, and participate in program development and quality improvement initiatives.
The CSW III brings advanced clinical expertise, distinguished by leadership in program planning, education, clinical supervision, and consultation. Both CSW II and III practice in alignment with UCSF’s mission of Caring, Healing, Teaching, and Discovering, and adhere to UCSF’s Everyday PRIDE values: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Excellence.
Social work services are provided to all patients, regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social, cultural, educational, or religious background, language, age, ancestry, citizenship, color, national origin, race, presence of mental or physical disability, source of payment for care, medical condition, marital status, or veteran status.
Key Responsibilities
Provide comprehensive psychosocial support, assessments, and crisis intervention for pediatric and adolescent patients in inpatient and outpatient settings. Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to coordinate resources and facilitate safe discharge planning.
Requirements
Requires a Master's degree from a CSWE accredited school of Social Work and a current California State License of Clinical Social Work. Candidates must have experience in healthcare or mental health working with children and families, specifically in trauma-informed care.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
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, 42% are remote, 16% have no call, 48% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Top Social Worker Jobs
50 matches · ranked by paySalary Distribution50 jobs · 43 employers
Annual compensation range
Benefits & Perks35 jobs
Share of similar jobs offering each benefit
Supervisor, Care Management (Social Worker)
Centene · Illinois
Social Worker - FT - Days - Social Work - MV
El Camino Health · Mountain View, California
LCSW III
$53.36-$74.7/hrLCSW Clinician
$65-$73.16/hr