Social Services Assistant

Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC is seeking a full time Social Service Assistant. Are you creative and looking for a great company to share your creative ideas with? Are you compassionate and want to work with geriatric residents? Then we would like to interview you!

About Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC

Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC proudly serves our community's long-term care and rehabilitation needs. We are committed to providing loving excellence in senior care. We offer services speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and dementia/Alzheimer's care. Our goal is to provide dignified care to all of our residents in a well maintained, home-like environment. This is why we work hard to create an excellent work environment for our staff as well.

Our company recognizes the amazing efforts of our staff and values their downtime with a work-life balance that includes two weeks of vacation and sick days for a healthy rejuvenation that all employees supply to our patients.

BENEFITS:

• Same Day Pay- Cash Out When You Clock Out;

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance;

• Paid Vacation, Sick & Personal Time Off;

• Tuition Reimbursement;

• Life, Critical Illness & AD&D Insurance,

• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account,

• Employee Assistance Program

We want to hire employees with compassion and a love for long term care. The ideal candidate is someone who is energetic, creative and has an outgoing personality. Most importantly the ideal candidate must love bringing excitement on daily basis to our residents. The Social Service Assistant will be well spoken and interact in a professional manner with the community. If you possess the following traits, we would love to have you join our team!

• Service-oriented - kind, patient, and helpful to everyone

• Self-motivated - driven by goals and is willing to do whatever needs to be done

• Optimistic - has a positive, can-do attitude

• Dependable - someone coworkers and residents can rely on

• Team-player - cooperative and works easily with others

Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Activity Director is responsible for planning and directing a program of diversified activities for residents of the Facility. The activity program must meet the interests and the physical, mental, and psychosocial needs and well-being of each resident.

The goal of the activity program is to provide mental and physical stimulation as well as to create an invigorating social atmosphere for the residents.

General Description

Under the direction of the Social Services Director, the Social Services Assistant is

responsible for monitoring the resident's mental and psycho-social needs and to

provide the services to meet these needs in order to attain or maintain the highest

practical level of physical, mental, and psycho-social well-being

Essential Duties

1.Adjusts to changes in schedule to meet resident and family needs.

2.Assists the Social Services Director in the development of a social history of new

residents.

3.May conduct psycho-social assessments.

4.Documents progress toward goals, assessment updates, and interventions.

5.Reviews the resident's progress toward resolution of the problems, needs, or

concerns; evaluates the effectiveness of the staff approaches; evaluates changes in

the mental and psycho-social assessment.

6.Participates in the interdisciplinary assessment reviews and revisions; may revise

the residents' Care Plan according to residents' needs.

7.Participates in the pre-admission screening of potential residents.

8.Provides information to residents and families during admissions.

9.Orients the resident to the long-term care environment and facilitates adjustment

to placement.

10. Assists with coordination the Complaint / Grievance program with appropriate

disciplines and verifies that complaints / grievances are handled in a timely

manner.

11. Works with residents to obtain Advance Directives upon admission and reviews

with residents at least annually.

12. Verifies that a Heart-To-Heart coordinator program is implemented in Facility.

13. Assists with reviewing behavior charting so that an appropriate Care Plan is

developed.

14. Assists with providing therapeutic counseling to residents and family members, as

appropriate, to meet the residents' psycho-social needs.

15. Coordinates appointments in the community for various health care visits and

therapeutic needs.

16. Attends in-services in areas concerning the mental and psycho-social needs of the

resident.

17. Assists the resident and family in the implementation of the discharge plan.

18. Participates in various Quality Assurance audits as directed by the Quality

Improvement team.