Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service Coordinator / Social Services Assistant

SUMMARY: The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services Coordinator (PRSC) assists in the implementation of programs in the Social Services Department. This can include assuring that the medically related emotional and social needs of the resident are met/maintained on an individual basis, to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of all manner, in accordance with the facility’s established policies and procedures, applicable laws and regulations and the directions of your supervisor. In addition, the incumbent is to assist in planning, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and directing the overall operation of our facility’s Social Services Department in accordance with federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations, our established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the Administrator, to assure that the medically related emotional and social needs of the resident are met/maintained on an individual’s basis.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supporting the facility’s philosophy of care and striving to achieve its goals and objectives.
• Greeting new residents to the facility and orienting them to the building and staff.
• Monitor facility entrances and exits to ensure resident safety.
• Make regular rounds during scheduled shifts to ensure the safety of residents and staff.
• Assist residents going to workshops and special community outings with arrival and departure ensuring proper hygiene, medications, and clothing.
• Stay current on facility policies and procedures on behavioral emergencies and be trained in crisis management and diffusing a potentially volatile situation, especially concerning aggressive/agitated behavior.
• Maintain knowledge of current goals/objectives that each resident is working on and encouraging the resident to do so.
• Review facility policies and procedures as part of the facility’s interdisciplinary team to assure. compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Participate in reviewing and setting policies concerning resident care and quality of life.
• Participate in developing facility social work policies.
• Participate in quality assurance interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Understand and meet all government requirements for social service documentation.
• Document progress in meeting the psychosocial needs of residents.
• Work with the interdisciplinary team and administration to promote and protect resident rights and the psychological well-being of each resident. Prevent and address resident abuse as mandated by law and professional licensure.
• Work with residents, families, significant others, and staff to provide support, information, and organization for taking a more proactive role in self-advocacy to improve the quality of life/care for individual residents and those who live and work within the nursing home and the community at large.
• Complete a social history and psychosocial assessment for each resident that identifies social, emotional, and psychological needs.
• Participate in the development of a written, interdisciplinary plan of care for each resident that identifies the psychosocial needs/issues of the resident, the goals to be accomplished for those needs/issues, and the appropriate social worker interventions.
• Ensure or provide therapeutic interventions to assist residents in coping with their transition and adjustment to a long-term care facility, including their social, emotional, and psychological needs.
• Ensure or provide support and education to residents’/family members/significant others to assist in their understanding of placement and facility issues in addition to referring them to appropriate social service agencies when the facility does not provide the needed services.
• Provide groups for residents/family members/significant others as appropriate to their needs.
• Provide clinical interventions to address catastrophic events that occur during the resident’s stay in the facility.
• Coordinate the resident discharge planning process and make referrals for appropriate home care services prior to the resident’s return to the community.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must possess, at minimum, a high school diploma.
• An individual that possesses a bachelor’s degree in a human services field (including but not limited to sociology, special education, rehabilitation counseling, or psychology).
• A minimum of one year of supervised experience in mental health or human services is preferred.
  
  
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
• Must be able to able to cope with the emotional stress of the position.
• Required to sit, stand, bend, and walk regularly; lift and/or move up to 25.
• Visual and auditory ability is enough for written and verbal communication.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.