Social Service Aide

Momence Meadows Nursing Center, Inc.; Momence (IL); Hybrid; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Momence Meadows Nursing Center, Inc. is seeking a Social Services Aide to plan, organize, evaluate, and direct social service programs for residents.

You will ensure the medically related emotional and social needs are met on an individual basis and safeguard residents' health, safety, and welfare per regulations and policies. You will greet new residents, assess admissions, document histories, and participate in care planning, discharge planning, and meetings across departments to support

Qualifications

• Must possess a high school diploma; a Bachelor's degree in social work is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Assists in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and directing social service programs.
• Greets new residents in the facility and orients them to the building and staff.
• Maintains appropriate departmental documentation as required.
• Assesses all new residents upon admission and completes social history, social assessment, and discharge planning when appropriate.
• Writes quarterly and annual updates of social assessment and social history.
• Records significant events in resident's life and social service contacts.
• Informs residents and families about funeral and pre-arrangements and follows up.
• Completes care plans as needed and follows through with goals.
• Interviews residents and families as necessary in private settings.
• Assists in developing and implementing policies for identifying medical-related social and emotional needs.
• Maintains personal contact with resident and family to monitor changing conditions and needs.
• Communicates with residents with communication problems and relays needs to family and community agencies.
• Coordinates room changes and communicates changes to involved departments; documents each change.
• Addresses problems of residents and families and attempts to reconcile differences.
• Attends care plan and social services meetings and training programs as deemed appropriate.
• Coordinates discharge planning and maintains ongoing notes for appropriate residents.

Education

High school diploma

Bachelor's degree in social work (preferred)

Job description

The Social Services Aide assists in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and directing social service programs. Must assure that the medically related emotional and social needs of the resident are met/maintained on an individual basis; safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of all residents of the facility. The person holding this position is delegated the responsibility for carrying out the assigned duties and responsibilities in accordance with current existing federal and state regulations and established company policies and procedures.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Works separately and in groups with residents, families, facility staff, and representatives of community agencies, institutions and organizations; document all activity as required

• Greets new residents in the facility and orient them to the building and staff

• Maintains appropriate departmental documentation:

• Assesses all new residents upon admission and complete the social service initial admission notes, social history, social assessment, and discharge planning when appropriate

• Writes quarterly and annual updates of Social Assessment and Social History

• Records all significant events in resident's life and social service contacts

• Informs and educates residents/families/legal representatives regarding the importance of funeral and other pre-arrangements and follow up with their completion

• Completes care plan as needed and follow through with approach and goals developed

• Interviews residents/families as necessary and in a private setting

• Assists in developing and implementing policies and procedures for identifying the medically related social and emotional needs of residents

• Maintains as much personal contact as possible with the resident and his/her family or guardian in order to continue good relations and to determine changing conditions and needs

• Communicates with the elderly with communication problems and relay their needs/concerns to family, facility, and community agencies

• Participates and coordinates room changes and make calls to families when necessary. Distributes list of changes to each involved department and document each room change

• Addresses problems of residents and families and attempt to reconcile differences

• Attends Care Plan, social services, admissions, rehabilitation, marketing, Performance Improvement, and Medicare meetings, in-service educational classes, and on-the-job training programs as deemed appropriate

• Coordinates discharge planning and maintain ongoing notes regarding discharge planning for appropriate residents

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Must possess a high school diploma, Bachelor's degree in social work preferred but not required.