DEPARTMENT: SWM GERO PSYCH UNIT

FACILITY: Southwell Medical

WORK TYPE: Full Time

SHIFT: Daytime

SUMMARY:

The Social Services Coordinator provides for social, emotional, and psychological needs of patients and promotes continuing growth and development to the individuals' full potential.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Ensures the Psycho-social evaluations are completed in their entirety and in a timely fashion (within 72 hours of admission).
* Group, individual, and family sessions are conducted and completed according to group agenda, per M.D. orders on appropriate patients as necessary.
* Assist in addressing patient rights, grievances, monitoring patient/family experiences.
* Completes Inquiries and Determinations of Treatments in a timely manner and passes report on any anticipated admissions to the charge nurse and program manager.
* At the time of discharge, ensures social services coordinates or supervises the coordination of all anticipated needs of the patient in a timely manner, as evidenced by documentation.
* Completes monthly audits of social services in compliance with CMS and Joint Commission.
* Completes all state paperwork and evaluations to facilitate patients being placed into nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or personal care homes.
* Serves as primary case manager for patients on the unit.
* Assists in patient/family orientation to unit.
* Actively participates in treatment team and is responsible for treatment plan documentation.
* Encourages family participation in the plan of care to maximize rehabilitation potential.
* Ensures patient and/or family signatures are on treatment care plans.
* Documents in medical record and treatment care plan as required.
* Coordinates unit educational activities with Program and Nurse Manager.
* Facilitates the placement of patients in long term care facilities as needed/appropriate.

* Provides assistance with completion and coordination of referrals including support with the referral line and communicating with referral sources and patients when needed to assist with admission process.
* Keeps abreast of all pertinent federal, state and facility regulations, laws and policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified..
* Demonstrates age-specific skills as required by position.
* Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs.
* Attends all mandatory education programs.
* Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes.
* Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements.
* Willing to cross-train in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in department.
* Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects.
* Manages resources effectively.
* Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment.
* Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime.

EDUCATION:

* Master's Degree in Social Work

CREDENTIALS:

OTHER INFORMATION:

* One (1) year of experience is preferred.

Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.