Summary from listing
The Social Worker provides psychosocial, mental, and emotional assessment and support for residents in a long-term care facility. Responsibilities include completing social histories and Minimum Data Set assessments, maintaining regulatory documentation, supporting resident self-determination, developing interdisciplinary care plans, providing therapeutic interventions, coordinating discharge planning, referring residents and families to community services, protecting resident rights, and assisting with inspection surveys. The role requires state certification, a bachelor’s degree in social work or human services, one year of supervised healthcare social work experience with geriatric individuals, and preferably two years of skilled nursing facility nursing experience.
