With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation’s only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically Black University and has created a superior learning environment, with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes.
 The Social Worker conducts comprehensive psychosocial patient assessments for early identification of barriers to facilitate timely discharge planning.  Coordinates inpatient discharge planning, collaborates with interdisciplinary team members, assists patients and/or families with continuing post-acute care needs, facilitates crisis intervention, provides emotional support and resource information, arranges patient/family case conferences, and facilitates ethics consultations.

​​​​​Social Worker:
Pay grade:$30.79-$61.02

• Conducts timely initial and discharge psychosocial assessments.
• Consistently documents concurrent social work interventions to address the discharge plan of care in the medical chart.  
• Maintains compliance with State and Federal regulatory requirements to include CMS Conditions of Participation for discharge planning; issuing discharge IM letters, CMS Choice
• Works independently, seeking consultation when needed and keeping supervisor apprised of patient/program developments.  Work is reviewed through medical chart documentation, reports, conferences and feedback from interdisciplinary health care team members and other providers.
• Collaborates and completes referrals to appropriate home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term acute care hospital(s), post-acute care provider(s) and other facilities and community resources.
• Facilitate communication between the patient, families and interdisciplinary health care team. Coordinates and directs availability of resources to service identified needs of patients
• Maintains a stated level of quality while minimizing resource usage and decreasing length of stay.
• Provides social work coverage for the hospital evenings, weekends and holidays as assigned
• Assumes other duties and responsibilities that are related and appropriate to the position and area.  The above responsibilities are a general description of the level and nature of the work assigned to this classification and are not to be considered as all-inclusive.

Basic Qualifications Include:

• Master’s degree in Social Work
• Experience as a licensed Social Worker desired
• Current District of Columbia license as an LGSW, LISW, or LICSW
• Cerner –Sorian preferred

At Howard University Hospital our job is to care for you. We do this by offering:

• Work life balance
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Competitive, comprehensive benefit plans offered (including health, disability, vacation and sick leave and 403B retirement plan)

COVID-19 Vaccination 

Howard University Hospital requires all external applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment.  External Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination and, if offered, may elect to be vaccinated at a designated Howard University Hospital location.