Healthcare Social Worker, FT

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

At Bishop Gadsden, we pride ourselves on providing compassionate and comprehensive care to our residents. Located on James Island, SC and we are a not-for-profit, faith-based retirement community, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. Bishop Gadsden is known as the Southeast's leading life care retirement community. We are located just 10 minutes from downtown Charleston!

The purpose of this position is to manage the delivery of services to meet the social and emotional health needs of residents in the Estes Community and Arcadia Memory Support, to promote the highest level of functioning and quality of life.

A Typical Day :

• Develop and implement social service programs and policies to meet residents’ social and emotional needs.
• Assist the Christie Rehab Social Worker; as well as, provide supervision for social work interns.
• Develop one-to-one professional relationships with residents and families to provide social support and counseling.
• Counsel residents and families in dealing with feelings and issues surrounding emotional, mental, environmental, or physical limitations and losses as well as end of life issues.
• Coordinate family and community resources as needed to promote emotional security and work to resolve residents’ problems with mental, environmental, and physical limitations.
• Provide counseling for death / dying issues and / or bereavement for residents and family members as needed.
• Monitor the social / health needs of residents who are unable or unwilling to leave their residence or who show signs of increasing mental or physical disability.
• Schedule and facilitate care plan meetings in the Estes Community to confer with residents and families at intervals no less than those defined in regulations. Schedule and attend care plan meetings in Arcadia.

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