Social Services Director

Ensure that sufficient and appropriate social services are provided to meet each resident's needs. Will provide services that meet the social and/or emotional needs affecting the resident's ability to achieve their highest level of function; participate in the development of resident comprehensive care plans; develop policies and procedures to provide social services to residents and families in compliance with federal, state and focal regulations, Coordinates Admission, transfer and discharge services for resident.

Location: The Gables of Pelham Assisted Living

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:

• Assess and complete the sections of the RAI/(MDS) Minimum Data Set assigned completely, timely and accurately.
• Contributes or directs the contribution to the comprehensive care plan of goals and approaches that are individualized to match the skills, abilities and interests/preferences of each resident in a timely manner.
• Provide medically-related social services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical mental and psychosocial well-being of each resident.

Medically-related social services may include:

• Advocating for residents and assisting them in the assertion of other rights.
• Assisting residents in working and obtaining resolution to grievances about treatment, living conditions, visitation rights and accommodation of needs.
• Assisting or arranging for a resident's communication of needs through the resident's primary method of communication or in a language that the resident understands.
• Making arrangements for obtaining needed adaptive equipment, clothing and personal items.
• Assisting staff to inform residents and those they designate about the resident's health status and healthcare choices and their ramifications.
• Making referrals and obtaining services from outside entities (e.g., talking books, absentee ballots, community wheelchair transportation).
• Assisting residents with financial and legal matters (e.g., applying for pensions, referrals to lawyers, referrals to funeral homes for preplanning arrangements).
• Transition of care services (e.g., assisting the resident with identifying community placement options and completion of the application process, arranging intake for home care services for residents returning home, assisting with transfer arrangements to other faciEities).
• Providing or arranging for needed mental and psychosocial counseling services.
• Identifying and seeking ways to support resident's individual needs through the assessment and care planning process.
• Encouraging staff to maintain or enhance each resident's dignity in full recognition of each resident's individuality.
• Identifying and promoting individualized non-pharmacological approaches to care that meet the physical and emotional needs of each resident.
• Situations in which the facility should provide social services or obtain needed services from outside entities include, but are not limited to the following:
• Lack of an effective family or community support system or legal representative;
• Expressions or indications of distress that affect the resident's mental and psychosocial well-being, resulting from depression, chronic diseases (e.g„ Alzheimer's disease and other dementia related diagnoses, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis), difficulty with personal interaction and socialization skills and resident to resident altercations.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person