DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Direct and supervise social service programs; evaluate the social needs of each resident admitted and formulate a written plane of care; review and revise plan as necessary; refer residents and families to appropriate community resources as necessary. Assist with Admission process.
If this sounds like you, then please take the next step with us and cut and paste this link into a new browser to take a 7–8-minute survey: https://surveys.cultureindex.com/s/8Xv6Uv7YaN/84747
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
· Assists with obtaining needed adaptive equipment, clothing and personal items for residents.
· With resident's permission maintain contact with family to report on changes in health, current goals, resident's rights, discharge planning, and to encourage participation in care planning.
· Make referrals and obtain services from outside entities, such as talking books, absentee ballots, and community wheelchair transportation
· Assist residents with financial and legal matters, such as applying for pensions, referrals to lawyers, and referrals to funeral homes for preplanning arrangements.
· Assist with discharge-planning services, such as helping to place a resident on a waiting list for community congregate living, arranging intake for home-care services for residents returning home, assisting with transfer arrangements to other facilities. Complete discharge plan in accordance with discharge-plan policy.
· Develop relationship with resident and family and provide or arrange for provision of needed counseling services.
· As a member of the interdisciplinary team, identify and seek ways to support resident's individual needs, preferences, customary routines, concerns and choices through the assessment and care-planning process
· Build relationships between residents and staff to understand and support residents' needs.
· Promote actions by staff that maintain or enhance each resident's dignity in full recognition of everyone’s needs.
· Assist residents in the decision-making process concerning their own health care, and whether or not they would like anyone else involved in those directions.
· Assist staff to inform residents, and those they designate, about the residents' health status and health-care choices and their ramifications.
· Provide alternatives to drug therapy and/or restraints by understanding and communication to staff why residents act as they do, what they are attempting to communicate, and what needs the staff must meet.
· Counsel in dealing with feeling about grief, depression, disability, death, dying or other emotional, mental, environmental or physical limitations.
· Find options which best meet the physical needs of the resident.
· Work with families and residents on social interaction, reality orientation, and intellectual stimulation.
· Work with families and community resources, as needed, to solve financial needs and promote emotional security regarding financial ability.
· Document interaction with residents and/or families in the assessment and care plans as required by state standards
· Complete the social service portion of the Minimum Data Set within 14 days of admission.
· Document the social-care component of the Comprehensive Care Plan for each resident.
· Identify community services and help the residents and families utilize them when needed.
· Compile and record social histories to assist in understanding resident's backgrounds, family problems, resources, histories of illnesses, interests, etc. Record pertinent social data about medically related personal and family problems in residents' medical records.
· Assist residents in utilizing individual and group activities to their best advantage.
· Observe, record, and notify staff of changes in attitude, behavior, or personality, especially depression anxiety, withdrawal, and uncomfortably aggression.
· Develop and use skills of interviewing, non-directive counseling, and communicating with community resources.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: A bachelor's degree in social work or a bachelor's degree in human services field, including, but not limited to, sociology, special education, rehabilitative counseling, and psychology is preferred.
Experience: At least two years of experience as a social worker preferred.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person