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Healthcare Social Workers
Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family caregivers. Provide patients with information and counseling, and make referrals for other services. May also provide case and care management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.
What a healthcare social worker does
Become a healthcare social worker
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good healthcare social worker
- Talking to others.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Looking for ways to help people.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $34 per hour with an average salary of $71,300 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $26 and $40 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $53,900 and $83,200 per year.
Healthcare Social Worker job outlook
- There are 4,565 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 633 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.