Social Services Director - Nursing Home jobs in Aiken, SC

Warrenton Health and Rehab Center is seeking a Social Service Director to join our team.

We offer competitive pay, great benefits and so much more!

Benefits:

• Blue Cross/Blue Shield Medical Insurance (75% of employee portion paid by company)
• Dental (50% employee portion paid by company)
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Ancillary
• Paid Time-Off

The overall purpose of the social services director position is to enable the facility to identify the medically related social and emotional needs of the residents. Incumbents act to meet those needs through individual and group social services programming. Incumbents also promote residents’ potential during their stay and collaborate in preparation for discharge.

Essential Functions

• Develops social histories of residents and develops a social assessment and care plan for each resident which identifies medically related social and emotional problems and needs.
• Participates in interdisciplinary care plan conferences and contributes to the development of care plans for residents.
• Establishes specific social action plans and realistic goals for each resident consistent with medically related social and emotional needs.
• Designs and develops social service programs that meet medically related social and emotional needs of residents and complies with regulatory guidelines.
• Coordinate admissions process for new or returning residents per Administrator.
• Coordinates discharge planning with staff, residents, and families
• Coordinates social services in-service and educational programs for staff.
• Promotes facility programs to help assure priority consideration of referral by doctors, hospital discharge planners, community agencies, churches, etc

Other Functions

• Completes all necessary and supportive documentation - progress notes, intervention notes, adjustment notes, etc.
• May identify and promote a supportive family/surrogate network.
• Performs other duties/tasks as may be assigned.

Desired Experience and Education

• A Bachelors Degree in Social Work (BSW), (or secondary education in the social services and certification as a social work designee may be substituted as appropriate) or
• Two years of social work supervised experience in an individual care setting or
• Similar related experience/professional qualifications or requirements per the state of Georgia.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills are required.
• Functional literacy in English is required.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 - $24.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person