Social Worker

Quaint, 41-bed facility nestled on eight acres outside of Pottstown city limits. Take the scenic route to personalized, resident-centered care. Kadima at Pottstown are looking for a Social Worker to provide compassionate psychosocial needs to our residents. We would love to have you on our dynamic, family-centered team.

Job Description The Social Service Director is responsible for to assisting in the planning, organizing, developing, and directing the overall operation of Social Services Department in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, regulations, our established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the Administrator, to ensure that the medically related emotional and social needs of residents are met/maintained on an individual basis.

Job Responsibilities:

• Orients resident and family to nursing center, helping both adjust to new environment.
• Develop a social history on each resident.
• Develop social assessment and care plan, which identifies medically related social and emotional problems and needs with realistic goals and specific actions to be taken.
• Answer inquiries of admission and provide tours to prospective family members/residents.
• Interviews resident/family as necessary and in private setting.
• Ability to listen and act compassionately with residents/family members; must be able to work on own and maintain job related jobs.
• Prepares and completes social service documentation in timely manner.
• Assures that notes are informative and descriptive of services provided and of residents’ responses to services.
• Participate in resident care plan conference and is active member of care plan team.
• Document residents’ behavioral and psychosocial status.
• Conducts discharge planning conferences with resident, family, and appropriate staff.
• Evaluates resident’s potential for safest and most appropriate discharge plan.
• Utilizes available resources to ensure smooth transition to community upon discharge.
• Serves to reinforce to residents and families the facility’s desire to deliver highest quality of care.
• Develops a community resource file and establishes contact with new providers.
• Identify and promote a supportive family or surrogate network.
• Provide individual and group help for family and residents at all times of adjustment, crisis, or particular need.
• Provide intense, frequent and short-term therapeutic groups in areas of adjustment, remediation, and self-help skills.

Education and Qualifications:

• Must possess at a minimum a bachelor’s degree from accredited school in Social Work or related field.
• Previous long-term care experience is desirable.