Social Services Director - Antelope Valley Care Center

PACS

67d • $85,000 - $90,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Social Services Director at Antelope Valley Care Center is responsible for handling pressure, maintaining objectivity, confidentiality, and possessing strong organization, planning, reporting, and communication skills. This role requires persistence, a proactive approach, excellent listening and verbal communication abilities, and the capacity to build positive relationships with residents and their families. The primary goal is to assist residents in achieving the highest practicable level of self-care, independence, and well-being by providing medically related social services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or in Human Services
• 2 years of supervised social work experience in a health care setting working directly with individuals.
• Ability to read technical procedures.
• Ability to read and comprehend policy and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Nice To Haves

• MSW preferred
• Knowledge and experience with PCC preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establishes course of action by exploring options and setting goals with residents and their families.
• Assists residents in achieving the highest practicable level of self-care, independence, and well-being.
• Provides medically related social services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident.
• Evaluates social and family information, psychological and emotional needs to assess social services needs and develop care plans.
• Provides emotional support and addresses emotional problems, including assisting residents and families with coping mechanisms for physical disabilities, health-related fears, and grief.
• Assists residents with healthcare decisions.
• Assists with personal shopping.
• Assists in inventory and tracking of patient belongings.
• Coordinates response to reports of missing, lost, or stolen belongings.
• Assists in obtaining resources from community and social services agencies to meet resident needs.
• Assists in securing appropriate prosthetics and assistive devices.
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with other departments and outside community agencies.
• Documents resident social service status.
• Assists in making outpatient appointments and scheduling on-site ancillary patient services.
• Assists in discharge planning with appropriate agencies, entities, or individuals.
• Coordinates with the interdisciplinary team.
• Provides in-service training to staff as requested.
• Counsels residents and family members.

Benefits

• We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
• We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applicants of every race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and any other protected characteristic.
• Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level