Clinical Social Worker - La Jolla - Full Time
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The Clinical Social Worker at Scripps Memorial La Jolla assists patients and families with personal and environmental problems that may predispose them to illness or interfere with receiving maximum benefits from medical care. The role also provides peer supervision and education for social work interns, and assists with planning programs and organizing services. The position is full-time with a varied Monday–Sunday schedule.
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Full job description
This is a ful-time position at Scripps Memorial La Jolla with a varied schedule, M-Su
Join the Scripps Health team to work with dedicated caregivers and deliver patient-centered care, while building a rewarding career with one of the nation's most respected healthcare organizations.
Why join Scripps Health?
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At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered and your abilities are appreciated:
- Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
- Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
- Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
- Beckers Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2024 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
- We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
- Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.
The Scripps Clinical Social Worker provides an important role within the hospital by assisting patients and families with personal and environmental problems that predispose them to illness, or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care. They also:
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Provide peer supervision for other staff, and education for social work interns
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Assist with program planning and organization of services.
Required Experience/Specialized Skills:
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Must be able to display good working relationships with patients, families, medical and nursing personnel, and all others employed at the hospital.
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Working knowledge of the laws, regulations, policies and appeal procedures as relative to the Federal, State and other reimbursement programs.
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American Heart Association Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (BLS) card
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Master’s degree in Social Work from an accredited university or college (MSW) or Master’s degree in Family Therapy (MFT)
Preferred Experience/Certification/Registration*:*
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Acute Care Hospital experience preferred.
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Licensed by the State of California Behavioral Science Examiners Board as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
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Ability to speak another language.
Job: *Social Services
Organization: *Scripps La Jolla Hospital
Title: Clinical Social Worker - La Jolla - Full Time
Location: Central San Diego County-LA JOLLA-SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LA JOLLA
Requisition ID: 262005984
How this job compares
Set against the 726 open Clinical Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$77–105K/yr216 salary ranges
- California median$53–66/hr52 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 118 open Clinical Social Worker jobs in California and 726 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente35 open
- Sutter Health15 open
- Amergis9 open
- Experience
- Clinical Social Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (417 postings).
- Education
- 521 of the 726 open Clinical Social Worker jobs (72%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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