Social Worker, Healthcare Management

JOB TITLE: Social Worker

DEPARTMENT: Social Services

SUPERVISOR: Director of Social Services , Assistant Director of Social Services

JOB SUMMARY: The primary purpose of your job position is to assist in planning, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and directing the overall operation of facility’s Social Services Department in accordance with current, federal, state and local standards, guidelines and regulations, our established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the Director of Social Services and/or Administrator, to assure that the medically related emotional and social needs of the resident are met/maintained on an individual basis.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Must possess, as a minimum, a Bachelor’s Degree from an approved school of Social Work.

Must have, as a minimum, three (3) years’ experience in a hospital, nursing care facility, or other related medical facility.

Job Functions:

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position, however it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position inf the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

Essential Functions:

• Assist the Quality Assessment & Assurance Committee in developing and implementing appropriate plans of action to correct identified deficiencies.

• Interview residents, or family members, as necessary, to obtain social history.

• Ensure that charted social service progress notes are informative and descriptive of the services provided and of the resident’s response to the service.

• Maintain a reference library of written material, laws, etc., necessary for complying with current standards and regulations, and that will provide assistance in maintaining quality social service.

• Involve the resident/family in planning objectives and goals for the resident.

• Meet with administration, medical and nursing staff, as well as other related departments in planning social service programs and activities.

• Agree not to disclose assigned user  and password for accessing resident/facility information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.

• Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.

• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access the facility’s information system.

• Provide the facility with a signed and dated business associate agreement in accordance with current HIPAA rules, regulations, and guidelines.

• Review resident assessment data relative to social services, quality indicators, quality measures, survey results, etc., and make recommendations to correct identified problem areas.

• Others as deemed necessary and appropriate, or as may be directed by the Administrator.

• Meet with social services personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, and solicit advice from inter-department supervisors concerning the operation of the social services department, assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.

• Assist in the recruitment, interviewing, and selection of social services personnel as necessary.

• Assist in determining departmental staffing requirements necessary to meet the social service department’s needs, to ensure that a sufficient number of social services personnel are on duty.

• Recommend termination of personnel when necessary, documenting and coordinating such actions with the Personnel Director and/or Administrator.

• Assist in standardizing the methods in which social services tasks will be performed.

• Maintain…