Licensed social worker resume examples from 2025
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How to write a licensed social worker resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in licensed social worker-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some licensed social worker interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Start with the job listing. Frequently, the keywords looked for by recruiters will be listed. Be careful to include all skills in the job listing you have experience with.
- Consider all the software and tools you use on a daily basis. When in doubt, list them!
- Make sure you use accurate and up to date terms for all the skills listed.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a licensed social worker resume:
- Social Work
- Patients
- Home Health
- Rehabilitation
- Substance Abuse
- Crisis Intervention
- Community Resources
- Patient Care
- Discharge Planning
- MSW
- Medicaid
- LSW
- Mental Illness
- Psychosocial Assessments
- Community Agencies
- State Regulations
- Emotional Factors
- Child Abuse
- Support Services
- Family Therapy
- Mental Health
- Compassion
- Individual Therapy
- Foster Care
- Conflict Resolution
- Mediation
- Developmental Disabilities
- Clinical Assessments
- Group Therapy Sessions
- Excellent Interpersonal
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How to structure your work experience
A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.
- Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
- Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
- Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.
How to write licensed social worker experience bullet points
Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:
- Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
- Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
- Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.
Here are effective examples from licensed social worker resumes:
Work history example #1
Work Counselor
YMCA
- Facilitated and co-facilitated weekly recovery group with mentally ill chemically dependent individuals.
- Trained and certified in CPR, First Aid, Child Abuse, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and Blood Born Pathogens.
- Resolved interpersonal conflict among youth using conflict management and communication tools such as mediation and peer-reviewed decision making.
- Provided individual substance abuse counseling to victims of trauma.
- Managed and supervised other inclusion support counselors and conducted them to plan and organize Therapeutic Recreation activities for foster youth.
Work history example #2
Licensed Social Worker
Orchards Children's Services
- Completed DHS Core trainings I and II.
- Bridged the gap between In-Home and Adoption by coordinating all services to ensure finalization.
- Provided trauma informed treatment, incorporated DBT and Motivational Interviewing concepts into treatment of sexually aggressive youth.
- Composed and delivered emergency communication messages with accuracy and discretion to domestic and overseas locations.
- Assessed intake seniors for PASSPORT qualification (Medicaid home and community-based waiver).
Work history example #3
Geriatric Social Worker
DaVita
- Assisted patients with applying for SSI/Medicaid, ESRD Medicare including Medicare D prescription plans, and Medicare Supplements.
- Ensured that 2728 forms and admission paperwork was completed for each patient applying for ESRD Medicare and Kidney Healthcare.
- Handled new-initial assessments for patient admission into the dialysis facility.
- Provided counseling to patients and families in order to maximize psychosocial functioning.
- Facilitated transplant referral process in collaboration with patient, their families and the interdisciplinary team.
Work history example #4
Social Services Specialist
Mount Sinai Health System
- Conducted mental health assessments using MDS 3.0 documentation to fulfill funding-source requirements.
- Handled new-initial assessments for patient admission into the dialysis facility.
- Conducted and completed comprehensive admission, quarterly and annual assessments of patients and completed MDS documentation.
- Completed MDS 3.0 Training Maintain ongoing communication with all disciplines; physicians, dietary and rehab.
- Maintained HIPAA guidlines for all client information.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Doctoral Degree in social work
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2014 - 2017
Master's Degree in social work
New York University, New York, NY
2005 - 2006
Highlight your licensed social worker certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.
Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your licensed social worker resume:
- Certification in Forensic Social Work (CFSW)
- Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (DCSW)
- Certified School Social Work Specialist (C-SSWS)