Social Services II
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital
La Palma, CAContract$35.85/hrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital seeks a Social Services II professional to support patients across age groups and their significant others with emotional, social, and treatment-related challenges. The role provides crisis intervention, counseling, referrals, case and milieu management, psychosocial assessments, treatment-plan support, and discharge planning. The professional works with an interdisciplinary team and maintains clinical records throughout each patient’s stay.
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Overview
Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion and community! La Palma Intercommunity Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference. Founded in 1972, La Palma Intercommunity Hospital is a 141-bed acute-care community hospital and the only hospital in La Palma. Our highly qualified team is committed to providing outstanding service in a safe, comfortable, and caring environment. Patients treated at La Palma Intercommunity Hospital benefit from the expertise of a large hospital system in a smaller, more personal setting. For more information visit www.lapalmaintercommunityhospital.com.
Responsibilities
To provide emotional support, crisis intervention and counseling for Pediatrics, Adolescents, Adults, Older Adults, and their significant others to cope with a multiplicity of social and emotional problems; information and referral; referrals for financial assistance and supportive services to patients and families with problems that are related to treatment services, illness, disability, or trauma. To provide case management & milieu management, complete psychosocial assessments, assist in the development and re-evaluation of Treatment Plans, works as a member of an interdisciplinary team, and to coordinate discharge planning. Complete necessary documentation and maintain clinical record for each client throughout the patient’s stay.
Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING
Required Qualifications:
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Master’s Degree in Social Work field OR
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Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy OR
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Master’s Degree in Professional Clinical Counseling OR
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In states requiring license, required upon hire and maintain current in accordance with state regulations.
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Minimum one (1) year Inpatient or Outpatient Behavioral Health experience.
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Experience working with a diverse population with a wide range of problems (i.e., death and dying, maternal and childcare, unhoused population, substance abuse, disability, chronic illness, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Current BLS certificate upon hire
Pay Transparency
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital offers competitive compensation and a reasonable compensation estimate for this role is $35.85 to $35.85. The exact starting compensation to be offered will be determined at the time of selecting an applicant for hire, in which a wide range of factors will be considered, including but not limited to, skillset, years of applicable experience, education, credentials and licensure.
Employment Status Per Diem Shift Days Equal Employment Opportunity
Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf
Privacy Notice
Privacy Notice for California Applicants: https://www.primehealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Notice-at-Collection-and-Privacy-Policy-for-California-Job-Applicants.pdf
How this job compares
Set against the 662 open Social Services jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$35.85/hr
- California median$24–28/hr61 hourly ranges
- US median$23–25/hr273 hourly ranges
This rate, $35.85/hr, is 36% above the California median midpoint ($26/hr) — in the top quarter of Social Services hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 80 open Social Services jobs in California and 662 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Social Services postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (380 postings).
- Education
- 162 of the 662 open Social Services jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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