Social Services Assistant

Social Services Assistant Job Benefits

• Competitive Pay
• Health Insurance including Dental and Vision
• Paid Time Off for Sick, Holiday, and Vacation Days
• Employer Matched 401k
• Daily Pay
• Employee Perks Website

Social Services Assistant Job Qualifications

Must have a bachelor’s degree in Social Work (BSW) or in a human services field including but not limited to sociology, special education, rehabilitation, counseling, and psychology.

Social Services Assistant Job Overview

The primary purpose of the Social Services Assistant is to provide outstanding behavioral health services to facility patients who may be encountering social, psychological or behavioral challenges. The Social Services Assistant provides services in accordance with federal, state, and local standards, guidelines and regulations, our established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the Administrator. The Social Services Assistant is also responsible assure that the medically related emotional and social needs of the residents are met/maintained on an individual basis.

Social Services Assistant Job Duties:

• Coordinate the resident discharge planning process and make referrals for appropriate home care services prior to the resident’s return to the community.
• Complete a social history and psychosocial assessment for each resident that identifies social, emotional, and psychological needs.
• 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.
• 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 quality of life/care for individual residents and those who live and work within the nursing home and the community at large.
• Work with the interdisciplinary team and administration to promote and protect resident rights and the psychological wellbeing of each resident.
• Prevent and address resident abuse as mandated by law and professional licensure.
• Ensure or provide support and education to residents’/family members/significant others to assist in their understanding or 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.
• 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.
• Educate staff regarding the role of social services in the facility and the psychosocial needs of the residents and their families/significant others including the problems of aging and disability.
• Educate staff regarding cultural diversity and each staff member’s importance when caring for resident.
• Educate staff regarding residents’ rights and how to recognize and prevent abuse, neglect and mistreatment.
• Educate residents and families/significant others regarding their rights and responsibilities, effective problem solving and the extent of community, health and social services that are available to them, including those necessary for effective discharge planning.
• Supervise students assigned to social services in accordance with the respective school guidelines and monitor and document the progress of their work.
• Participate in developing facility social services 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.