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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Hospice Social Worker - Full Time

Social WorkerFull-Time

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Job Description

Hospice Social Worker - Full Time

Join Our Compassionate Team at Advantage Hospice

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients and their families during life’s most vulnerable moments? Advantage Hospice is seeking a dedicated and empathetic Hospice Social Worker to join our interdisciplinary team and provide vital emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support.

Responsibilities

Job Purpose:

To deliver compassionate, holistic social work services to hospice patients and their families—providing emotional guidance, spiritual support, crisis counseling, and advocacy, while connecting them to essential community resources.

Key Responsibilities

  • Perform initial and ongoing psychosocial, spiritual, and emotional assessments.
  • Collaborate in developing patient-centered care plans.
  • Provide individual and family counseling, including crisis intervention.
  • Serve as a bereavement team member, offering grief support as needed.
  • Act as an advocate for patients and families in IDG meetings.
  • Maintain accurate and timely documentation of all services and contacts.
  • Develop community relationships to enhance referrals and outreach.
  • Participate in staff meetings and continued professional development.

Qualifications

You may qualify for this role with one of the following:

MSW from a CSWE-accredited school and one year of health care experience.

BSW from a CSWE-accredited school + one year of experience in a health care setting (supervised by an MSW unless exempt).

Bachelor’s in psychology, sociology, or related field + one year of health care social work experience (with MSW supervision).

Skills & Traits We Value

  • Empathy, integrity, and strong communication skills.
  • Ability to assess and respond to emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs.
  • Collaborative mindset and a heart for service.

Physical Requirements

  • Ability to sit, stand, bend, and lift light loads regularly.
  • Capable of performing duties during extended periods of physical activity.

Additional Information

This role is integral to the hospice care model and requires flexibility, compassion, and commitment. Duties may evolve as needed, and we seek professionals eager to grow and adapt with us.

Why Advantage Hospice?

We’re more than a healthcare provider—we’re a family. Our mission is to deliver care with heart, honoring every life with dignity, compassion, and love.

Advantage is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Social Worker; Social Worker; Social Worker; Social Worker

Key Skills

Psychosocial assessmentPatient advocacyCare planningBereavement supportInterdisciplinary collaborationCommunity outreachEmotional support

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 32% are remote, 40% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Social Work by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedSocial Work median $68k (middle half $54k–$73k)10 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingPennsylvania index 97.6US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in Pennsylvania231 active6,552 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 32% remote · 40% no call · 78% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedPennsylvania Social Worker listings: 8% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 8% offer loan repayment259 active listings, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Social Worker Jobs

41 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

37 jobs · 32 employers
15
<$80k
7
$80k-100k
4
$100k-120k
8
$120k-140k
3
$140k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

31 jobs
401k / retirement match
100%
CME allowance
35%
Sign-on bonus
23%
Loan repayment
13%
PSLF eligible
10%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Medical Social Worker - Population Health (Full Time, Day)

NorthBay Health · Fairfield, California

$55.87-$67.96/hr
#2

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW)

LifeStance Health · Vancouver, Washington

$123k-$141k
#3

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

$123k-$141k
#4

Temporary Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C)

$65/hr
+ 39 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,463 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Mechanicsburg

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$350k
Typical market rent
$1,944/mo
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
98.7
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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