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Program Manager Social Worker Jobs in Houston, TX

Gentiva

Social Worker MSW

Bellaire, TX

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

... Programs (Telemedicine, Diabetes Management, Joint & Spine Concierge Care) • Education Support & Tuition Assistance • Free Continuing Education Units (CEUs) • Company-paid Life & Long-Term ...

VITAS Healthcare

Hospice Social Worker

Houston, TX · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Supported by industry-leading experts and a growing network of programs in 15+ states, VITAS ... WHAT YOU'LL DO As a hospice social worker, you will provide emotional and logistical support to ...

VITAS Healthcare

Hospice Social Worker

Houston, TX · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Supported by industry-leading experts and a growing network of programs in 15+ states, VITAS ... WHAT YOU'LL DO As a hospice social worker, you will provide emotional and logistical support to ...

HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest

Social Worker BSW

Houston, TX · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

You will work collaboratively with RN case managers, acute care nurses, physicians, insurance ... The available plans and programs include: * Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug ...

DaVita

Licensed Social Worker

Houston, TX

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

... in managing the physical, mental, emotional and financial demands of End Stage Renal Disease. If ... Demonstrated knowledge of government and private insurance programs * Basic computer skills in MS ...

Harris County, TX

Clinical Social Worker

Houston, TX · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker is responsible for providing clinical and administrative ... management. The Maternal and Child Health Program intends to expand mental health resource ...

Harris County

Clinical Social Worker

Houston, TX

$41K/yr

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker is responsible for providing clinical and administrative ... management. The Maternal and Child Health Program intends to expand mental health resource ...

Harris County

Clinical Social Worker

Houston, TX

$41K/yr

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker is responsible for providing clinical and administrative ... management. The Maternal and Child Health Program intends to expand mental health resource ...

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Medical Social Worker

The Woodlands, TX · On-site

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  • Medical

Ability to manage crisis situations and complex psychosocial needs. * Excellent critical thinking ... Pediatric social work experience * Behavioral health experience * Experience working with ...

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HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast

Social Worker MSW

Pasadena, TX · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members ... You will work collaboratively with RN case managers, acute care nurses, physicians, insurance ...

Gentiva Hospice

Social Worker MSW

Bellaire, TX · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

As a Hospice Social Worker (MSW), You Will: Serve as the psychosocial support expert on the ... Programs (Telemedicine, Diabetes Management, Joint & Spine Concierge Care) Education Support ...

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How much do program manager social worker jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 15, 2026, the average yearly pay for program manager social worker in Houston, TX is $72,832.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $56,300.00 and $87,400.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Program Manager Social Worker vs Case Manager Social Worker?

AspectProgram Manager Social WorkerCase Manager Social Worker
CredentialsSocial Work Degree, Licensure, Management SkillsSocial Work Degree, Licensure, Case Management Certification
Work EnvironmentProgram oversight, administrative tasks, team leadershipClient-focused, direct service, community or healthcare settings
Employer & IndustryNonprofits, government agencies, healthcare organizationsHospitals, social service agencies, community health programs

Program Manager Social Workers typically oversee programs, manage staff, and handle administrative duties, requiring management skills alongside social work credentials. Case Manager Social Workers focus on direct client services, coordinating care and support. Both roles require social work licensure, but their daily tasks and work environments differ significantly.

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Social Worker II LCSW

Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital

Houston, TX • On-site

Full-time

Posted 9 days ago

Houston Methodist rating

8.2

Company rating: 8.2 out of 10

Based on 300 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

55th of 887 rated healthcare providers

Job description

At Houston Methodist, the Social Worker II LCSW (SW II) position comprehensively provides compassionate, clinical social work, psychosocial assessments, diagnosis and treatments, and complex discharge planning to patients and their families of a targeted patient population on a designated unit(s). In collaboration with physicians and the interprofessional healthcare team, this position sensitizes other healthcare providers to the social and emotional aspects of a patient's illness to collaboratively facilitate efficient quality care and achievement of desired treatment outcomes and affect positive patient and family outcomes. This position uses case management skills to help patients and their families address and resolve the social, financial and psychological problems related to their health condition. The SW II LCSW position holds joint accountability with case manager, assuring that psychosocial and continuing care issues are addressed and treated as needed across the continuum of care and has responsibility for unit or departmental social work program development. This position serves as a hospital-wide, service-line leader for psychosocial-related issues, complex discharge planning activities, and population disease management.
FLSA STATUS
Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
  • Master's degree in social work from accredited university

EXPERIENCE
  • Three (3) years social services experience in a healthcare setting

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
  • LCSW- License Clinical Social Worker - State Licensure - Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation_PSV

SKILLS AND ABILITIES
  • Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
  • Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
  • Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
  • Knowledge of community resources and health care financial and payer issues, and eligibility for state, local and federal programs
  • Maintains individual competencies around critical Social Work functions including; payor rules and regulations, psycho-social assessments and discharge planning methods
  • Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in interactions with physicians, payors, and patients and their families
  • Well versed in computer skills of the entire Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word)
  • Critical thinking, collaboration, negotiation, and mediation skills
  • Time management and prioritization skills
  • Adherence to the clinical practice standards set forth by NASW practice standards for healthcare settings and more specifically in hospitals and medical centers
  • Maintains level of professional contributions as defined in Career Path program

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Role models communication in an active, positive and effective manner to all healthcare team members and reports pertinent patient care and family data in a comprehensive and unbiased manner, listens and responds to the ideas of others. Uses therapeutic communication to establish a relationship with patients and families and communicates the discharge plan, facilitating transitions and handoffs. Supports patients and families in clinical or ethical issues.
  • Provides staff education specific to patient populations and departmental processes. Functions as a preceptor and mentor to new employees. Identifies opportunities for professional growth of self and peers.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Serves as a hospital/post acute-based leader for comprehensive case management activities, including assessing high-risk patients and leading team to identify at-risk patients, participating in daily Care Coordination rounds, and identifying and leading resolution to barriers of efficient patient throughput. Completes a full assessment based on the social work assessment, leading and addressing solutions of social determinants which is accomplished by patient/family interview, review of the medical record including previous episodes of care, H&P, lab and other test results/findings, plan of care, physician orders, nursing and progress notes. Uses advanced knowledge and clinical expertise and screening tools to identify need for case management and/or social work intervention.
  • Addresses and manages conflict associated with a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work diagnoses, treatments and interventions, including crisis intervention, brief individual, marital and family therapies, and patient, family and caregiver groups. Maintains ownership of the psychosocial component, assessments, diagnosis and treatment, of the discharge planning process on assigned units. Assists with screening, identification, diagnosis, management and treatment of victims of abuse, neglect, and domestic violence and of mental health and/or substance abuse problems in patients and family members.
  • Establishes mutual educational goals with patient and family, providing appropriate resources, incorporating planning for care after discharge. Provides education to physicians and other interprofessional healthcare team members on mutually identified goals of care and uses knowledge of levels of care, working with patient and family, to ensure discharge disposition is the appropriate level and facilitates transfers.
  • Uses knowledge for different levels of care, working with patient and family, to ensure discharge disposition is to the appropriate level and facilitates transfers, provides brief, goal-directed counseling services to assist patients/families to cope more effectively with the transition.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Consistently documents to reflect completed patient screening/assessment and reassessment upon admission and concurrently as needed. Modifies care based on continuous evaluation of the patient’s condition, demonstrates problem-solving and critical thinking, and makes decisions using evidence-based analytical approach. Considers variables that impact treatment plans including diagnosis of emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their illness, treatment and/or life situation.
  • Consistently reviews the total picture of the patient for opportunities for care facilitation and needs for discharge planning. Works with case manager for routine discharge and anticipates/prevents and manages/elevates emergent situations with specific focus given to discharge plan and elimination of psychosocial barriers.
  • Collaborates with staff from the interprofessional health care team concerning safety data to improve outcomes and the safe transition of care through effective patient handoffs.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Completes timely and thorough assessment on all unfunded patients to identify community resources required for effective transition by demonstrating an effective community resource knowledge base and judgment/ability to effectively select and coordinate available resources, including referrals to regulatory agencies, i.e., CPS/APS.
  • Identifies, obtains and utilizes alternative resources to fill gaps in established community resources.
  • Guides discharge planning activities for assigned patients and collaborates with the case managers and other members of the interprofessional health care team, as well as patient and family by intervening and coordinating cost-effective, complex discharge planning outcomes and decreased length of stay.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Provides education to hospital physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers on community resources and psychosocial impact on care needs.
  • Identifies areas for improvement based on understanding of evidence-based practice literature. Completes and updates the My Development Plan (MDP) on an ongoing basis.
  • Identifies, initiates and leads evidence-based practice/performance improvement projects based on observations by offering solutions and participating in unit projects and activities.

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
    WORK ATTIRE
    • Uniform: No
    • Scrubs: No
    • Business professional: Yes
    • Other (department approved): No

    ON-CALL*
    *Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.
    • On Call* Yes

    TRAVEL**
    **Travel specifications may vary by department**
    • May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
    • May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area Yes
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
  • Master's degree in social work from accredited university

EXPERIENCE
  • Three (3) years social services experience in a healthcare setting

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
  • LCSW- License Clinical Social Worker - State Licensure - Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation_PSV

Company Profile:

Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital is committed to leading medicine in Clear Lake and surrounding communities by delivering the Houston Methodist standard of exceptional safety, quality, service and innovation. Houston Methodist Clear Lake provides a broad spectrum of adult, pediatric, medical and surgical care. It is an accredited chest pain center and acute stroke-ready designated through DNV. Houston Methodist Clear Lake offers advanced inpatient and outpatient services, including state-of-the-art imaging; childbirth center with a level II neonatal intensive care unit; minimally invasive surgery; cancer center; neurology and spine care; heart and vascular care; bariatric and digestive care; emergency care; primary care; rehabilitation services; and comprehensive orthopedics and sports medicine.

Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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