SOCIAL WORKER

Integritus Healthcare•Boston, MA

9h•$38 - $43•Onsite

About The Position

Join one of the largest post-acute health care systems across Massachusetts, committed to fulfilling the health and residential needs of the population in the communities we serve. Pilgrim Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Care Center’s highly skilled teams have been proudly providing top-quality care to the families of Boston’s North Shore and the surrounding areas—since 1965—in a convenient location right off Route 128, known as the Yankee Division Highway, with close proximity to Route 1 and Interstate 95.

Requirements

Licensed Social Worker

Responsibilities

Assists filing of paperwork, answering phones, taking messages, returning calls, delivering messages.
Communicate effectively with residents, families, caregivers, and staff either face-to-face or by telephone.
Sets up facility meetings on behalf of the Director of Social Services- residents such as care plan meetings, 72-hour meetings, welcome meetings.
Assists in ensuring accuracy of daily census.
Gather resident information for the completion of request for services (MA health screens).
Meets and welcomes new residents to facility.
Reviewing admission agreement packets with new resident/responsible parties.
Must be able to relay accurate confidential information as it relates to HIPPA.
Assist with discharge planning with respect to obtaining the resource information for discharge (such as making PCP appointments, behavioral health appointments, referral for elder services and VNA and faxing discharge paperwork).
Completion of housing applications with resident’s and other community resources such as SNAP benefits, The Ride, DMH, DDS.
Gather information for coordination of grievance concern.
Gather information for guardianship regulatory compliance.
Coordinate Ombudsman directive for facility-initiated notices of transfer discharges.
Assist the Licensed social worker with obtaining social history in order to determine their plan of care.
Post discharge calls and follow up with resident’s/ responsible parties, VNA and Elder Services.
Updating resident’s face sheets with updated contact information.
Conducting audits of advanced directives, psychotropic medications, etc.
Participating in QA activities.
Other administrative duties as assigned to support the Social Services dept.