About the Role
Lead and manage Social Work (SW), Homecare services, and Community Nursing across all PACE sites. Ensure high-quality participant-centered social services, contractor oversight, discharge coordination, RCFE admissions and tracking, Level-of-Care (LOC) submission oversight, quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and participant satisfaction/retention.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct supervision, training, coaching, and performance evaluation for social work, homecare, and community nursing teams.
- Ensure effective hiring, orientation, ongoing training, scheduling, coverage, and staffing across all PACE sites for social work, homecare, and community nursing services.
- Delegate responsibilities appropriately according to licensure, credentials, education, and experience.
- Develop policies and procedures for social work, homecare, and home health services.
- Drive participant engagement and retention initiatives, including outreach, care-plan engagement, satisfaction follow-up, and targeted interventions to reduce disenrollment.
- Lead the management and oversight of contracted homecare services, including contractor selection, contract performance monitoring, service-level expectations, invoicing reconciliation, and vendor relationship management.
- Lead the social work team in hospitalization discharge planning and coordination with hospitals, SNFs, IDT, and families to ensure safe transitions and timely return to community-based care.
- Lead RCFE contracting, referral/admission processes, capacity tracking, and ongoing relationship management with RCFE partners.
- Oversee Community RNs in preparing and submitting Level-of-Care (LOC) documentation for PACE candidate applications, including coordinating assessments, required documentation, submission timelines, and follow-up.
- Lead the Social Work team to monitor and resolve participant eligibility issues.
- Oversee the quality of care delivered by homecare caregivers in participants' homes.
- Lead QI initiatives focused on social work and homecare services, tracking QI metrics, and implementing corrective actions.
- Monitor encounter, assessment, and care plan metrics for social work, homecare, and community nursing/home health services and identify opportunities to improve overall participant experience.
- Implement strategies to meet or exceed national and state participant satisfaction benchmarks for social work, homecare services, and behavioral wellness.
- Coordinate closely with PCPs, IDT members, and community providers to develop and implement individualized care and therapy plans.
- Oversee supplies, equipment, and workspace needs relevant to social work, homecare, and community nursing operations across sites.
- Resolve grievances related to social work, homecare, and community nursing issues in collaboration with Center Manager.
- Prepare for and participate in CMS, DHCS, and other regulatory audits and implement corrective actions as needed.
- Ensure accurate, cohesive, and timely documentation in participant medical records for all social work, homecare, and community nursing/home health activities.
- Oversee the quality of care and safety of PACE participants, both at the PACE center and in the community.
- Ensure compliance with all PACE regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Travel between PACE sites, RCFEs, and participant residences as needed for supervision, training, audits, or to address service issues.
- Utilize Epic appropriately and efficiently and serve as content and workflow expert for resolving issues and proposing solutions in Epic.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the PACE Program Director.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Social Work, Nursing, Gerontology, Public Health, Health Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum two years of experience in social work, care management, or community-based services.
- Minimum two years supervisory or team-lead experience in a healthcare setting.
- Prior management of multidisciplinary teams strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated skills in supervision, leadership, and communication and in fostering an effective team environment.
- Minimum one year of experience working with older adults and their families in a healthcare or community agency setting is preferred.
- Ability to travel between PACE sites as needed.
- Current BLS and First Aid required.
- Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English.
Skills
- Social Work
- Homecare services
- Community Nursing
- Supervision
- Training
- Coaching
- Performance evaluation
- Hiring
- Orientation
- Scheduling
- Staffing
- Delegation
- Policy development
- Procedure development
- Participant engagement
- Participant retention
- Outreach
- Care-plan engagement
- Satisfaction follow-up
- Discharge planning
- Contract management
- Contractor selection
- Contract performance monitoring
- Invoicing reconciliation
- Vendor relationship management
- RCFE contracting
- Referral processes
- Admission processes
- Capacity tracking
- Level-of-Care (LOC) documentation
- Quality improvement (QI)
- QI metrics tracking
- Corrective action implementation
- Encounter monitoring
- Assessment monitoring
- Care plan monitoring
- Participant satisfaction benchmarking
- Behavioral wellness
- Care plan development
- Therapy plan development
- Supply management
- Equipment management
- Workspace management
- Grievance resolution
- Regulatory audit participation
- Medical record documentation
- Participant safety
- Regulatory compliance
- Travel
- Epic utilization
- Content expertise
- Workflow expertise
- Problem resolution
- Fluency in other languages is an asset
Location
- San Francisco, CA 94133
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Minimum two years of experience in social work, care management, or community-based services.
- Minimum two years supervisory or team-lead experience in a healthcare setting.
- Minimum one year of experience working with older adults and their families in a healthcare or community agency setting is preferred.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Social Work, Nursing, Gerontology, Public Health, Health Administration, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $53.97 - $61.90 Hourly
