Medical Social Worker*

NUHS@Home; Singapore; On-site; SGD 39,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

National University Hospital (NUHS) seeks a Social Worker through NUHS@Home to provide counselling, crisis intervention and discharge planning for continuing care within a patient-centered, multidisciplinary team.

You will conduct psycho-emotional assessments, assist with socio-economic support, and coordinate post-discharge follow-up with community resources to ensure holistic patient care across the care continuum.

Qualifications

• Provide clinical social work intervention in counselling and support, crisis intervention and discharge planning for continuing care.
• Provide psycho-emotional, socio-economic input to the medical and multi-disciplinary health care team in order to achieve holistic patient care.

Responsibilities

• Counselling: to provide counselling and emotional support to patients and family members to help them to cope with their illnesses and medical treatment.
• Casework: to work on case assessment and action plan. Case progress is to be regularly reviewed until patient is discharged home. For patients who we anticipate requiring continue support after discharge from hospital, post-discharge follow up is required until social situation is managed and stabilized.
• Discharge Planning for continuing care: to provide counselling and support to patients and family members who require special support for care upon discharge from hospital. To provide comprehensive assessment in the psycho-emotional state of patient and family members, their pre-admission coping mechanism, social and financial resources and availability of relevant community resources. To liaise with community to facilitate effective post-discharge support.
• Crisis Intervention: to provide priority response within same day or by next working day, and intensive case management to patients who go through personal crisis including attempted suicide or are victims of abuse.
• Financial Assessment and Assistance to patients who require financial aid for medical treatment.
• Teamwork with multi-disciplinary team to achieve holistic care for patients
• Liaison with community organisation for proactive case management.

Skills

Counselling

Crisis intervention

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Social Work

Job description

Job ID: 8945

Job Function: Allied Health

Institution: National University Hospital

Overview

Job Description

Provide clinical social work intervention in the areas of counselling and support, crisis intervention and discharge planning for continuing care.

Provide psycho-emotional, socio-economic input to the medical and multi-disciplinary health care team in order to achieve holistic patient care.

Primary Responsibilities

• Counseling: to provide counselling and emotional support to patients and family members to help them to cope with their illnesses and medical treatment.
• Casework: to work on case assessment and action plan. Case progress is to be regularly reviewed until patient is discharged home. For patients who we anticipate requiring continue support after discharge from hospital, post-discharge follow up is required until social situation is managed and stabilized.
• Discharge Planning for continuing care: to provide counselling and support to patients and family members who require special support for care upon discharge from hospital. To provide comprehensive assessment in the psycho-emotional state of patient and family members, their pre-admission coping mechanism, social and financial resources and availability of relevant community resources. To liaise with community to facilitate effective post-discharge support.
• Crisis Intervention: to provide priority response within same day or by next working day, and intensive case management to patients who go through personal crisis including attempted suicide or are victims of abuse.
• Financial Assessment and Assistance to patients who require financial aid for medical treatment.
• Teamwork with multi-disciplinary team to achieve holistic care for patients
• Liaison with community organisation for proactive case management.

Requirements

• Degree in Social Work or Graduate Diploma in Social Work
• Prior internship or work experience in health care setting is preferred
• Committed and enjoy working as a team in a fast-paced and innovative environment

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.