Description:
- Provide and facilitate socio-economic evaluations to help patients and their families address practical concerns, such as financial matters, which are often an issue at the end of life
- On-going individual and family counselling through face-to-face sessions or home visitations in order to help navigate the personal and ethical dilemma, cultural conflict and issue relating to religion, spirituality and the meaning of life
- Work with the broader community which includes educational, religious, and social service organizations so that patients and their families can achieve optimal end of life goals
- Engage families’ involvement and encourages their visits, as well as prepares patients / families for the end-of-life stage and managing the life closure and the dying process
- Attend Interdisciplinary Patient Care Conferences with medical, nursing, allied health teams to discuss plans for total management of the patient
- Counsel patients and their family members on financial and discharge care plans
- Perform field work involving visiting patients in hospital wards and other social agencies to help patients alleviate or resolve their medico-social problems
- Prepare social and other related reports for management and other related institutions / agencies
- Present cases for discussion and engages actively on formal platforms such as departmental or inter-departmental meetings for the purpose of sharing, reviewing and clarifying of atypical, difficult issues
- Undertake highly complex case arrangement
- Document all social interventions for record, within the expected time frame set by the department
- Provide formal clinical supervision and provides expert opinion when consulted
Requirements:
- Min. Degree in Social Work
- Min 2 to 3 years of social worker experience
Interested and qualified candidates, please send in your application to [email protected]
Ivy Yong Shi Mei
R2198995
Recruit Express Pte Ltd 99C4599
