Director of Social Work, LTC

SNF Healthcare; New Jersey; Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SNF Healthcare is seeking a Social Services Director to oversee the Social Services Department, guiding its development, implementation, and ongoing evaluation to support residents’ well-being while ensuring compliance with regulations.

The role includes coordinating preadmission services, discharge planning, community resource access, and accurate documentation in residents' medical records, with a focus on ethical social work practices.

Aufgaben

• Oversee the development, implementation, supervision and ongoing evaluation of the Social Services Department.
• Identify the need for medically-related social services and ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations.
• Direct the social services component of the comprehensive assessment and contribute to care plan goals and approaches.
• Coordinate preadmission services, participate in interdisciplinary evaluation for institutional care, and complete PASARR Level I.
• Facilitate residents’ transitions back to the community through discharge planning and community-based arrangements.
• Assist residents and representatives in locating financial, legal, and other community resources.
• Ensure documentation of social services actions in medical records and uphold professional standards in records.
• Oversee the establishment and modification of departmental QA procedures.

Jobbeschreibung

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
The Social Services Director is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, supervision and
ongoing evaluation of the Social Services Department designed to meet and assist residents in attaining or
maintaining their highest practicable well-being. This includes identifying the need for medically-related social
services and ensuring that these services are provided in accordance with State and Federal regulations.
The Social Services Director will complete and/or direct/delegate the completion of the social services component of
the comprehensive assessment. The Social Services Director will also contribute to and/or direct/delegate
contribution of social services goals and approaches to the comprehensive care plan. These goals and interventions
will be individualized to match the skills, abilities, and interests/preferences of each resident in compliance with
Federal and State regulations, to include identifying and promoting individualized, non-pharmacological approaches
to care that meet the mental and psychosocial needs of each resident.
Directing the Social Services department includes overseeing preadmission services for inbound residents, to
include participation in interdisciplinary evaluation of residents needs for institutional care and completion of the
PASARR Level I.
The Social Services Director will facilitate residents’ safe transition back into the community through
interdisciplinary discharge planning and arrangement of community based services and follow-up care. The Director
will also assist residents and their representatives in locating and accessing financial, legal, and other community
resources.
The Social Services Director will coordinate implementation and oversight of procedures to ensure social services
actions and interactions are adequately documented in each resident’s medical record, and that legal, ethical, and
professional standards of social work practice and being upheld in written recordings.
The Social Services Director is responsible for overseeing the establishment of departmental QA procedures and
modification of those procedures where appropriate.