Social Services Assistant — Impactful Care & Growth

Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home; Kapolei (HI); On-site; USD 33,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Excellent growth and advancement oppor

Mission Driven Ohana & Dedicated Team

Competitive pay and benefits

Job summary

Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home in Kapolei, HI is seeking a Social Services Assistant to work with the interdisciplinary team to assess Kupuna's psychosocial, emotional, environmental, spiritual, and support needs and develop care plans.

Responsibilities include counseling and crisis intervention, daily rounds, completing social service assessments, and coordinating POA/guardianship processes to ensure representation on admission.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work preferred.
• Licensure/ Hawaii State Social Work license or eligible preferred.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience providing social services or in long term care preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assists with counseling and crisis intervention to facilitate effective coping/problem solving strategies in relation to illness/disability, death, and/or emotional and relationship problems.
• Makes daily rounds to all units and reviews communication logs, social service logs and loss logs.
• Completes the process for Social Services to include: initial assessments, state/federal timed assessments, and care plans.
• Identifies guests who need to Obtain POA, Surrogates or Guardianship and assists in coordinating process to ensure all guests have a representative on admission or within 1 month of admission.

Skills

Social work

Counseling

Crisis intervention

Education

Bachelor's degree in Social Work

Job description

Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home in Kapolei, HI is seeking a Social Services Assistant to work with the interdisciplinary team to assess Kupuna's psychosocial, emotional, environmental, spiritual, and support needs and develop care plans.

Responsibilities include counseling and crisis intervention, daily rounds, completing social service assessments, and coordinating POA/guardianship processes to ensure representation on admission.