Social Worker Resume Example
A senior medical social worker in Pittsburgh, licensed as an LCSW, with twelve years across child welfare and hospital social work.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Licensed clinical social worker (Pennsylvania) with 12 years in child welfare and hospital social work. Carry about 18 active patients on a 32-bed cardiac unit, plan 40 discharges a month and supervise 3 MSW interns a year.”
License and state first, then the setting, the caseload and the supervision role. A social work hiring manager checks those before anything else.
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“Plan 40 discharges a month, with 91% leaving on the target date in 2025, up from 78% in 2019”
Ties social work to a number the unit tracks. A discharge on the planned date is a shared goal, and the starting figure shows the change.
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“Started a weekly huddle with 6 home health agencies that cut the average wait for services from 2.1 days to 0.8”
A process this social worker set up, with partners counted and a before and after result.
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“Carried 14 to 18 foster care cases at a time, with 12 of 15 children reaching permanency within 18 months in 2017-18”
Child welfare outcomes given as counts with no identifying detail. Permanency is the outcome the system is built around.
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“Wrote 60+ court reports a year and testified in 30 dependency hearings”
Court work is a distinct skill in child welfare. Counting reports and hearings shows experience a new caseworker would not have.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
Copy the text
Use it as a skeleton, then replace every line with your own work. A copied bullet with someone else's numbers is the fastest way to fail an interview question.
Frankie Gallardo Medical Social Worker, LCSW, Acute Care Pittsburgh, PA | frankie.gallardo@example.com SUMMARY Licensed clinical social worker (Pennsylvania) with 12 years in child welfare and hospital social work. Carry about 18 active patients on a 32-bed cardiac unit, plan 40 discharges a month and supervise 3 MSW interns a year. EXPERIENCE Medical Social Worker, Larimer Avenue Medical Center | Feb 2019 - Present - Complete about 25 psychosocial assessments a month for cardiac patients and families, including advance care planning - Plan 40 discharges a month, with 91% leaving on the target date in 2025, up from 78% in 2019 - Started a weekly huddle with 6 home health agencies that cut the average wait for services from 2.1 days to 0.8 - Field instructor for 3 MSW interns a year, and run the unit's monthly caregiver support group - Close notes in Epic within 24 hours, meeting the department standard in every quarterly audit since 2021 Child Welfare Caseworker, Juniata Street Family Services | Jul 2014 - Jan 2019 - Carried 14 to 18 foster care cases at a time, with 12 of 15 children reaching permanency within 18 months in 2017-18 - Wrote 60+ court reports a year and testified in 30 dependency hearings EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Pennsylvania, 2018 M.S.W., University of Pittsburgh, 2014 B.A. Psychology, Duquesne University, 2012 SKILLS Psychosocial assessment, Discharge planning, Advance care planning, Motivational interviewing, Crisis intervention, Epic, Court reports and testimony, Field instruction
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