Social Service Director Job Description
Job Title: Social Service Director
Department: Social Service
Supervisor: Nursing Facility Administrator
Area of Supervision: Social Services Staff
Job Summary: Direct and supervise social service programs; evaluate the social needs of each resident admitted and formulate a written plan of care; review and revise plan as necessary, not less than quarterly; refer residents and families to appropriate community resources as necessary.
The person holding this position is delegated the responsibility for carrying out the assigned duties and responsibilities in accordance with current existing federal and state regulations and established company policies and procedures.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in social work or in related areas, such as psychology or sociology.
Certification/License: As required by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Experience: At least two years of experience as a social worker preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Make arrangements for obtaining needed adaptive equipment, clothing, and personal items.
- 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.
- Issue Advance Beneficiary Notifications as applicable in the approved format, within the specified time frame and ensure that applicable supportive documentation is noted in the resident record.
- 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.
- 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 and teach staff to understand and support residents’ individual needs.
- Promote actions by staff that maintain or enhance each resident’s dignity in full recognition of each resident’s individuality.
- Assist staff to inform residents, and those they designate, about the resident’s health status and health-care choices and their ramifications.
- 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 stability.
- Document interaction with residents and /or families in the assessment and care plans as required by the 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 as identified by the health-care committee within 7 days of completion of the MDS Subsequent progress notes and care plan up dating should be documented every 9 days or as resident’s condition changes.
- Compile and record social histories to assist in understanding residents’ 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 uncontrollable aggression.
Work area and environment:
Office, resident rooms, and occasionally in the community and at residents’ homes.
Physical Requirements:
The Social Services Director must perform all physical tasks required in normal, irregular or emergency operations to keep the facility running efficiently, ensuring at all times that residents receive excellent quality care. The Social Services Director may be called on to perform physical tasks involving transporting residents by wheelchair, lifting (20 lbs) and positioning residents (with assistance), and loading and unloading supplies. The Social Services Director may also perform housekeeping, laundry, dietary, and general maintenance tasks as needed in crisis situations.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS, VISUAL ACUITY AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF THE POSITION OF SOCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR
Physical Activities: The Social Services Director must perform all physical tasks required in normal, irregular or emergency operations to keep the facility running efficiently, ensuring at all times that residents receive excellent quality care. In crisis situations essential tasks include transporting residents in wheelchairs, positioning residents in chairs or beds, assisting in maintenance, laundry, dietary tasks as needed to ensure the proper operation of the facility in regular, irregular and emergency operations. These tasks require physical activities which include:
- Stooping: bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Reaching: Extending hands and arms in any direction
- Standing: Remaining upright on the feet for sustained periods of time.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
- Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
- Lifting: Raising objects form a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
- Typing on computer keyboard.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information thorough oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
The Social Services Director is required to have close visual acuity to perform activities such as viewing a computer terminal and extensive reading.
Working conditions for this position are generally inside. Exposure to infectious diseases is possible.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $49,716.70 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Education:
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Preferred)
Work Location: In person