Social Services Assistant

JOB SUMMARY:

A Social Services Assistant will partner with our  Social Services Director at our Skilled Nursing facility team to aide residents and families requiring assistance. This position acts to meet those needs through individual and group social services programming. This position also promotes residents’ potential during their stay and collaborates with physician and resident in preparation for discharge.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Interviews all new residents to assess their psychosocial needs
• Performs admission and discharge planning coordination
• Counsel's residents individually, or with family/support groups
• Refers residents to needed services such as Dental, Optometry, Audiology, Podiatry, Psychology, and Psychiatry and other community health resources
• The Social Services Assistant will compile records and prepare reports such as theft and loss
• Coordinates with nursing department to meet the residents’ optical, dental, and audiological needs and arranges transportation
• Prepares timely documentation of social service interventions and assessments in resident's chart
• Attends resident care meetings, rehabilitation and utilization review, quality assurance, and department head meetings
• Complete appropriate sections of MDS timely
• Other Duties as Assigned