Job Description
What you’ll be doing
- Participates in resident admission process including tours, admission, transfers, discharge, and occupancy tracking.
- Acts as liaison with families and advocate for residents to ensure they are allowed and encouraged to exercise their rights
- Participates in the interdisciplinary team process of resident assessment, care planning and evaluation to ensure services are planned according to individual resident and family needs.
- Provides therapeutic services through individual and group counseling for residents and families, documents on resident’s record and evaluates effectiveness of these programs.
- Coordinates services of Psychogeriatric Consultant in support of staff caring for residents.
- Adheres to established department plans, policies, procedures and quality assurance program to meet all regulatory and Extendicare standards.
- Provides in-service programs for home staff, residents, and...