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CLIN SOCIAL WORKER 3

Social WorkerIncludes callFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 5mo ago

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

Psychosocial AssessmentCase ManagementInterdisciplinary CollaborationPatient Care ManagementCrisis De-escalationSpanish Language

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

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Salary Distribution50 jobs · 43 employers

15
<$110k
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$110k-125k
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$125k-140k
7
$140k-155k
3
$155k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks35 jobs

401k / retirement match
91% this job
Sign-on bonus
40%
CME allowance
37% this job
Loan repayment
23%
PSLF eligible
17%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Supervisor, Care Management (Social Worker)

Centene · Illinois

$87k-$161k
#2

Social Worker - FT - Days - Social Work - MV

El Camino Health · Mountain View, California

$56.76-$75.47/hr
#3

LCSW III

$53.36-$74.7/hr
#4

LCSW Clinician

$65-$73.16/hr
+ 48 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,459 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in San Francisco

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.74M
Typical market rent
$4,682/mo
Residents’ average commute
30 min
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.

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

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About UCSF

Hospitals and Health Care
San Francisco, CA
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision)
Retirement plans
Paid time off
CME opportunities