DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Count on us for short-term rehab and recovery, skilled nursing, long-term care, and respite stays. Hathaway Manor, has been part of the community since 1989, providing area families with top-quality skilled nursing care for short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. We focus on maximizing patient recovery, comfort, and independence for the highest possible quality of life. From post-surgery and post-hospital rehabilitation to long-term care for a chronic illness, our highly skilled care teams provide compassionate attention and specialized care every step of the way. Come join this collaborative and innovated team. At Integritus Healthcare you will enjoy Weekly Pay, generous time off, exceptional health insurance and the ability to grow in your career. Integritus Healthcare wants you! Essential Job function: Work collaboratively with other team members to coordinate care and provide education for all residents related to any physical, emotional, or psycho-social needs while at the facility, discharge planning and referrals to home services, or end of life care.\ Collaborate with social services staff, interdisciplinary team, and administration to promote and protect patient rights, dignity, independence and psychological well-being. Maintain good working relationships with co-workers, meeting with administration and nursing staff to collaborate and plan. Assure a comprehensive Psychosocial Assessment is completed for each patient that identifies social, emotional, psychological needs and strengths. Educate patients and families regarding their rights and responsibilities, health care decision making/advance directives, effective problem solving, and available community resources. Provide therapeutic interventions to assist patients to cope with their transition and adjustment to a nursing facility and to address behavior or mood problems Responsibilities: Demonstrates an awareness of, a respect for, and attention to the diversity of the people with whom they interact. Assists short term and long term residents and their families in adjusting to their illness, by dealing with life changes, grief, loss, placement, and depression through counseling and developing resident-centered care plans with other members of the Interdisciplinary care team. Assists with advanced directive planning in collaboration with nursing and medical services. Responds to resident and family needs by advocating on behalf of the resident any wishes that are presented. Attends appropriate facility meetings on behalf of the residents such as Care plan meetings, Welcome meetings, Medicare meetings, etc.; protects the residents from abuse, neglect and misappropriation of property. Completes documentation per federal and state guidelines and sends required documentation to appropriate agencies and physicians. Assists in ensuring accuracy in census, collaborating with nurse liaison on prospective residents, touring prospective residents/families, and conducting PASAAR screens when appropriate. Meets and welcomes new residents to facility. Educates residents and families regarding financial needs, monitors and assists with insurance verification and transitions of payment options, issues Medicare A & B non-coverage cut letters and collaborates with the business office for issues related to payment. Experience Required 3 year(s): Social Services Director/Management Experience. Education Required Masters or better Licenses & Certifications Preferred Licensed Social Worker Licensed Clinical Social LIC INDEP SOCIAL WORKER Job Type: Full-time