Job Overview

description:

summary: provides psychosocial support to residents and their families.

essential functions:

• provides direct psychosocial intervention.
• performs resident assessments at admission, upon condition change and/or annually.
• creates, reviews and updates care plan and progress notes.
• provides direct psychosocial intervention.
• coordinates resident visits with outside services,dental, optical, etc.
• attends and documents resident counsel meetings.
• assists resident's families in coping with skilled nursing placement, physical illness and disabilities of the resident, and the grieving process.
• works with the patient, family and other team members to plan discharge.
• conducts in-service programs to educate staff regarding psychosocial issues and patient rights.
• supervises and guides social services assistants.
• performs other tasks as assigned.

requirements:

qualifications:

education:

• bssw, mssw preferred

licenses/certification:

• licensing as required by the state of employment

experience:

• one year of experience in a long term care environment.

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