Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Atmiya Adult Day Care is looking for an individual who is passionate about advocating for the clients. They should have extensive amount of patience and willing to go the extra mile to assist the clients in all needs.

**Bilingual in Gujarati or Korean is a big PLUS!!

Responsibilities:

• Licensed or certified by the New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners.
• The social worker will be responsible for the development and implementation of the social services component. In addition to clinical services, this includes policy development and the integration of social services with health services.
• The social care assessment will be initiated prior to or upon admission, after an initial interview with the patient and/or the family. The social care assessment will include a social history, including family background, education, employment, interests, activities, organizational memberships, psychosocial functioning, and relationships with family and friends.

The social worker will provide but not be limited:

• Interviewing the recipients and caregivers to obtain a social assessment and

evaluation of needs and problems; Preparing the social work portion of the patient plan of care on the basis of the

assessment and providing services, including;

• Providing or arranging for individual, family and group counseling in reference

to psychological, social, financial, legal, vocational, and educational needs ofthe recipients;

• Assisting with obtaining concrete services; for example, housing, shopping,

clothing, etc.; Referring to and/or developing support groups and educational programs for caregivers and recipients;

• Arranging and/or providing crisis intervention;
• Providing family outreach;
• Coordinating recipient's treatment plans with other community resources;
• Providing in service training to staff on recipient/ caregiver psychosocial

needs; Participating in all recipient case conferences; for example, pre-admissions and
post admissions, problem-oriented cases; Participating as part of the multidisciplinary team in developing, implementing,
reviewing the patient plan of care; Reassessing the patient ongoing basis and revising the social work portion of
the patient plan of care; Documenting assessments, evaluations, treatment plans, clinical notes etc. in
the patient’s medical records; Developing and implementing a quality assurance program;

• Participating on professional organizations and seminars;
• Coordinating discharge planning for the members including linking them to

necessary community services.

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