Texas Health and Human Services is hiring: Social Worker III in San Antonio

Overview

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Location: SAN ANTONIO, TX

Posting details: Posting Number: 8828 • Closing Date: 10/03/2025 • Salary Range: $5,175.00 - $7,253.83 per month • Employment Type: Full time

Facility Location: San Antonio State Hospital • Job Location City: SAN ANTONIO • Job Location Address: 6711 S NEW BRAUNFELS

Functional Title and Job Title: Social Worker III. Agency: Health & Human Services Comm. Department: Adm AcuteCarePsych Direct Car.

Responsibilities

• Performs and documents highly complex social services work, serving as a liaison between the patient, legally authorized representative, and others to assure ongoing care, treatment, and support using person-centered practices.
• Gathers information to assess the individual’s support systems and service needs; participates in interdisciplinary team meetings as needed; may assess individual rights and capacity to make decisions.
• Designs and provides individual and group trainings to promote exercise of rights and patient transition, including curriculum, materials, and case-specific information.
• Assists with coordination of furloughs, transfers, transitions, and discharges as needed; focuses on complex cases and post-discharge placement and support.
• Works under limited supervision with substantial latitude for initiative and independent judgment.
• Performs other duties as assigned, including participation in disaster response/COOP activation and potential alternate shift patterns.
• Assists with supervision of Social Worker I/II and social work students, including interviewing, hiring, training, evaluations, and counseling as needed.
• Oversees transfers, transitions, furloughs, and community placement discharges, coordinating with patients, families, courts, LMHA, and treatment providers to ensure orderly discharge and continued treatment.
• Designs and conducts individual and group trainings to promote rights, decision-making, and self-advocacy; develops curriculum and training materials.
• Participates in discharge program meetings and internal/external work groups; identifies service gaps and leverages existing resources.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities (KSAs)

• Knowledge of human growth and development, mental health, and social work standards; knowledge of facility and community resources.
• Knowledge of discharge policies and procedures for state hospital patients with high/complex needs.
• Ability to adhere to Code of Conduct and Ethics, and to work collaboratively with others on behalf of patients.
• Effective written and verbal communication; skills in interviewing, assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, case management, mediation, counseling, information and referral, problem solving, supervision, and advocacy.
• Ability to supervise others and accountability for assigned property with limited financial responsibilities.

Qualifications

• The Social Worker is required to maintain licensure in accordance with the Texas Board of Social Work Examiners.
• Initial Screening Criteria:
  • Minimum Licensed Bachelor’s degree in Social Work (LBSW) and two years of social work experience with persons with mental, social, or substance use disorders, OR
  • Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with one year of relevant experience; or completion of State Hospital internship program.

Additional Information

• Applicants must pass fingerprint background, pre-employment drug screen, and registry checks (CANRS, Nurse Aide, Medication Aide, Employee Misconduct, LEIE).
• All applicants must be at least 18 years old; Waco Center for Youth applicants must be 21.
• Flexibility in work hours; overtime or extended hours may be required.
• Immunization policy compliance; vaccination may be required; if not immunized for influenza, masks or other protections may be required.
• HBSC/telework: This position may be eligible for telework subject to policy and supervisor discretion.
• Pre-employment checks and work eligibility; HHSC uses E-Verify; bring I-9 documentation on first day.

Nearest Major Market

San Antonio