Social Worker - Long Term Care
Listed compensation
$35k-$53k
Listing transparency5 of 6 stated
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- No call
- Weekends
- No weekends
Job Description
Building Location
Essentia Virginia Care Center
Department
2105450 SOCIAL SERVICES LTC - VIR SNF
Job Description
Provides social work services and discharge planning to patients and families in the healthcare setting to meet individual health and psychosocial needs in the promotion of wellness and cost-effective outcomes.
Education Qualifications
This position also transitions patients to alternate levels of care and provides crisis intervention as needed.
0.6 - 0.9 FTE flex schedule.
Licensure/Certification Qualifications
- Education Requirements:
- A bachelor degree in social work from an accredited social work program
Certification/Licensure Requirements
Current State Social Work Licensure
FTE
0.6
Possible Remote/Hybrid Option
- Shift Rotation:
- FTE Flex Days (United States of America)
Shift Start Time
Day Shift - Flex
Shift End Time
Day Shift - Flex
Weekends
- Holidays:
- No
Call Obligation
No
Union
Union Posting Deadline:
Compensation Range
$35,443.20 - $53,164.80
Employee Benefits at Essentia Health: At Essentia Health, we’re committed to supporting your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, along with supplemental options to fit your needs.
We offer a 401(k) plan with employer contributions to help you plan for the future, and we invest in your professional development through training, tuition reimbursement, and educational programs.
To help you thrive both at work and at home, we provide flexible scheduling, generous time off, and wellness resources focused on your physical, mental, and emotional health. Please note that benefit eligibility may vary.
For full details, refer to your benefit summary or contact our HR Service Center at (218) 576-0000.
Key Responsibilities
Provides social work services and discharge planning to patients and families to support health and psychosocial needs. Facilitates transitions to alternate levels of care and performs crisis intervention as required.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor degree in social work from an accredited program. Candidates must hold a current state social work license.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Social Worker - Long Term Care at Essentia Health a 8.7 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Social Work — ranked against 6,104 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
Social Worker Career Context
Essentia Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 72/100, 132 active listings.
In Minnesota, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$77k (52 salary observations; 123 listings), vs ~$82k nationally (1,980 salary observations; 6,468 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 28% have no call, 76% require no weekends.
Social Work pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$44k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $45k in an average-cost state. 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Listing-based score
Top 5% in Social Work
- No call
- No weekends
- No nights
Living in Virginia
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $146k
- Typical market rent
- $1,054/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 18 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 88.8
- State income tax
- Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Duluth, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.