Share Email Opening Title Nursing Home Social Worker - New Jersey  EOE Statement We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.   Description The primary purpose of your position is to assist in fostering the climate, enhancing the quality of life; emphasize assisting the residents to cope, retain their individuality, independence, and choice; and ensuring compliance with Federal and State regulations and facility standards.   Maintains the confidentiality of all resident care information and treats all residents fairly and with kindness, dignity, and respect. Learns continuously by attending all in-services, trainings, attends seminars and various meetings as applicable to always remain in compliance with best practice State and Federal regulation. Completes all assessments on time and attends all care conferences for designated residents. Enable residents to see causes, connections, and implications, create sound plans; solve problems effectively; set priorities and make decisions for the good of the whole based on analysis, experience, and judgment. Maintains family involvement with residents by facilitating and encouraging this involvement and notifying families of resident issues and concerns. Completes insurance updates for residents with the most current information and gathered information from the Interdisciplinary team. Ability to navigate the MDS, care plans, and point of care to input assessments and to investigate a resident’s care. Proactively anticipate and identify potential problems, issues, and opportunities by monitoring the resident’s adjustment to facility living, health, treatment plans, and goals. Participates in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies. Assist, develop and revise the departmental policies, procedures, forms applicable to social worker’s functions. #ind123   Position Requirements BSW/MSW/LSW with experience in skilled nursing. Experience with the Medicaid process. Ability to communicate effectively with residents and staff. Must function independently, have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, staff, and support agencies. Must be able to relate to and work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and at times hostile people within the facility. Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.   This position is currently not accepting applications. To search for an open position, please go to http://SocialWorkPRNInc.appone.com

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