Social Services Director

Healthcare Nursing Center; Quincy (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Health, Dental, and Vision benefits

Strong management team

Accelerated growth

Paid time off

Overtime pay

Job summary

Healthcare Nursing Center is seeking a Social Services Director for a Skilled Nursing Facility in Illinois. The role focuses on meeting residents' social, emotional, and psychosocial needs and coordinating services to enhance quality of life.

The ideal candidate has strong teamwork and communication skills, with familiarity of the MDS process and care planning; experience in SNF/long-term care is preferred. Full-time position with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 1 year of social services experience in a Skilled Nursing or Long-Term Care setting preferred.
• Desire to be part of a team that grows and excels together.
• Understand the MDS process with ability to interview, input, and complete social service assessments.
• Accurately assess, document, and provide interventions to meet psychosocial needs of residents.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct the Social Services Department.
• Identify and provide for each resident’s social, emotional, and psychological needs.
• Facilitate resident care conferences: schedule and coordinate communications with families.

Skills

Social services experience

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Job description

Skilled Nursing Facility seeking a Social Services Director

Brought about by our excellent internal career growth track, this is perfect for the social services professional seeking a solid workplace with a culture of teamwork, respect, and appreciation. Our Skilled Nursing Facility offers long/short-term care, secured memory care, rehabilitation, respite services, bariatric care, and Inpatient therapy.

OVERVIEW:

The social services director will work with residents in the facility to identify their psychosocial, mental, and emotional needs, along with providing, developing, and/or aiding in accessing services to meet those needs. In addition, the SSD is responsible for fostering a climate that enables residents to maximize their individuality, independence, and dignity. This shall provide residents with the highest practical level of physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being and quality of life.

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• 1 year of social services experience in a Skilled Nursing or Long-Term Care setting preferred.
• Desire to be part of team that works, grows, and excels … together.
• Manage and direct the Social Services Department, and identify and provide for each resident’s social, emotional, and psychological needs.
• Manage department to assure all psychological and psychosocial needs of residents are met
• Understand the MDS process with ability to interview, input, and complete social service assessments
• Accurately assess, document, and provide interventions to mee psychosocial needs of all residents; develop care plans based on assessments
• Provide effective facilitation of resident care conferences: schedule, send letters to families/ responsible parties, and participate in care conferences
• Facilitate all resident discharges (arrange for home health, DME, assist with transfer to other facilities)

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Competitive wages!
• Benefits Package Including Health, Dental, and Vision
• Strong Management Team
• Accelerated Growth
• Paid Time Off
• Overtime Pay

This organization does not discriminate in hiring or employment based on ancestry, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, military status, veteran status, or disability. No question on the application is intended to secure information to be used for such discrimination. This application will be given every consideration; however, its receipt does not imply employment for the applicant.