Social Service Director

Essential Duties

• Establishes course of action by exploring options; setting goals with resident and their families.
• Aid residents in achieving the highest practicable level of self-care, independence and well-being.
• Provide medically related social services to ensure the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial wellbeing of each resident.
• Evaluate social and family information, psychological and emotional needs to assess social services needs and develop care plans for social services issues.
• Provide emotional support and address emotional problems including assisting residents and family with difficulties in coping with physical disabilities, fears related to health conditions as well as grief related to loss of ability and/or death.
• Aid residents with health care decisions.
• Aid in personal shopping and inventory and tracking patient belongings.
• Coordinate response to reports of missing, lost or stolen belongings.
• Aid in obtaining resources from community and social services agencies as well as health and welfare agencies to meet the needs of the resident.
• Aid in securing appropriate prosthetics and assistive devices.
• Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with other departments in the facility, and outside community agencies, so that social services can be provided to meet the needs of the residents.
• Document regarding resident social service status.
• Aid in making outpatient appointments as ordered and schedule on-site ancillary patient services to include optometry, podiatry, dentistry and psychiatric services.
• Aid in discharge planning with appropriate agencies, entities or individuals to include agency services, equipment and agency referrals.
• Coordinate with interdisciplinary team.
• Provide in-service training to the staff as requested.
• Counselling residents and family members.

Qualification

• Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or in Human Services and 2 years of supervised social work experience in a health care setting working directly with individuals. MSW preferred.
• Knowledge and Experience: With PCC Preferred.

Physical Demands

• Standing and /or walking very frequently.
• Sitting occasionally.
• Reaching with hands and arms frequently, pushing/pulling very frequently.
• Talking and /or hearing very frequently.
• Lifting up to 25 pounds frequently.
• Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, or crouching occasionally.

Work Environment

• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.