Social Services Director (Personal Services)
Lakewood Post Acute & Rehabilitation is Hiring a Social Services Director!
Lakewood Post Acute & Rehabilitation specializes in 24-hour skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation. Our facility boasts state-of-the-art private recovery suites, with personal on-suite showers and bathrooms. Lakewood Post Acute is a beautiful facility, but we're not just awesome on the outside- we make sure our staff feels valued on the inside.
What to Expect:
Direct and provide social services to meet the facility residents' psychosocial needs
Why Lakewood Post Acute & Rehabilitation?
Competitive pay
Healthcare Benefits including Vision & Dental (Full-time only)
401k with match (Full-time only)
Paid Time Off (Full-time only)
Sick Leave
Continuous Training and Growth Opportunities
Fun environment and a great staff to work with!
Impactful Work: Make a real difference in the lives of our residents.
Successful Candidates:
MSW preferred, will consider candidates with a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or related field
Experience in medical social work required
Experience in a post-acute or skilled nursing facility a plus!
Rate: $70,500-$80,500/year, salary is negotiable based on experience
Ready to make a difference?
Join us at Lakewood Post Acute & Rehabilitation and be part of an awesome team dedicated to providing the best care possible!
Job Description:
General Purpose:
Handles pressure, objectivity, confidentiality, organization, planning, reporting skills, persistence, proactive, listening, verbal communication, and resident and their family relationships.
Essential Duties:
• Establishes course of action by exploring options; setting goals with resident and their families. • Assist residents in achieving the highest practicable level of self-care, independence and well-being. • Provide medically related social services so that the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial wellbeing of each resident is attained or maintained. • Evaluate social and family information, psychological and emotional needs to assist in assessing social services needs as well as develop care plans for social services issues. • Provide emotional support and address emotional problems including assisting residents and family with difficulties in coping with physical disabilities, fears related to health conditions as well as grief related to loss of ability and/or death. • Assist residents with health care decisions. • Assist with personal shopping. • Assist in inventory and tracking patient belongings. • Coordinate response to reports of missing, lost or stolen belongings. • Assist in obtaining resources from community and social services agencies as well as health and welfare agencies to meet the needs of the resident. • Assist in securing appropriate prosthetics and assistive devices. • Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with other departments in the facility, and outside community agencies, so that social services can be provided to meet the needs of the residents. • Document regarding resident social service status. • Assist in making outpatient appointments as ordered and schedule on-site ancillary patient services to include optometry, podiatry, dentistry and psychiatric services. • Assist in discharge planning with appropriate agencies, entities or individuals to include agency services, equipment and agency referrals. Coordinates with interdisciplinary team. • Provide in-service training to the staff as requested. • Counselling residents and family members.
Education and/or experience:
Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or in Human Services and 2 years of supervised social work experience in a health care setting working directly with individuals. MSW preferred
