Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City
Job Purpose
Clinical Social Worker Assists patients, families, and significant others with their psychological, social, environmental, financial, and emotional problems by conducting the needed psychosocial assessments that are related to presenting problems/concerns by providing the necessary interventions needed to enhance patient quality of living.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Ensures being involved in the daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area, taking into account the changing/competing demands, and making decisions about prioritization of caseloads
Oversees and supervises junior staff and ensures their abidance to ongoing rules and policies as applied and implemented in the Section/Department/Facility
Accountabilities
Manages frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances, and maintain substantial mental effort through frequent and intense levels of concentration and attention
Carries out initial comprehensive person- centered psychosocial assessments, plan and implement individual strategies of care to meet identified needs in conjunction with the service user, care giver and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate and update the patient file history as required by JCI.
Maintains and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self- governance in accordance with professional codes of practice
Prepares and acts as an advocate for the patient in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the patient long term care needs
Promotes and informing an awareness of social care/social work context and anti- discriminatory practice to other professionals and facilitate multi-disciplinary working
Respects the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing values, spiritual beliefs and customs
Serves as an advocate for patients and families in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the clients long term care needs
Maintains and enforces confidential information about patients, staff, and others in accordance with professional codes of conduct and relevant legislation
Promotes, enables and empower individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions
Liaises effectively with other agencies including government and charities involved in the care of individuals thereby maintaining and enhancing close professional working relationships
Collaborates and network and liaise with other professionals and external organizations to provide services to individuals, families and carers and to challenge and question when necessary in the best interests of the user
Role-Specific Job Responsibilities:
Must have awareness and knowledge of child abuse laws within the UAE and be an active participant in the associated committees in the hospital
Taking care management responsibility for vulnerable clients. This includes the production of comprehensive assessment of client needs, formulization of a social care plan, and the identification of relevant resources to meet the individual’s needs. Where appropriate following assessment, co-ordinate the delivery of social care plans and liaising with the appropriate government or charity agencies
Participates in direct patient care and carries out initial comprehensive psychosocial assessments, plans and implements individual strategies of care to meet identified needs in conjunction with the service user, care giver and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate
Assess the needs of patients and families and works to implement and coordinate the necessary services, supports, and interventions needed to meet their ongoing care needs
As part of the social work assessment, identify any concerns regarding the safety of family members including children and vulnerable adults and to report these concerns to the Social Work manager
Promotes, enables and empowers individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions
Responsible in maintaining own accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records and those of staff responsible to the post holder, in line with professional standards of practice and within the parameters laid by the section/department/facility
Provide crisis interventions as needed
Participate in complex discharge planning with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure smooth transition of care for patient and family
Negotiating a diverse and challenging complexity of needs to a range of providers/agencies and to coordinate the organization of care packages and facilitate access to a wide range of resources and information
Participate in the multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss and advocate for the patient and family needs (physical, social and emotional)
Consider any legal issues for patients admitted and liaise with the admitting authority such as police, judicial, prosecution, and provide the necessary reports in order to discharge patient safely
Participate in safe and effective decision making to facilitate a safe, timely discharge from bedded units and community teams.
Working closely with patients/family in directing them to the appropriate resources and
· Education:
· Bachelor and Master Degree in Social Work
· Registration/License:
· Valid Registration/license/membership from Allied Health Council or equivalent authority from home country & working country.
· Experience:
· Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience (post qualification) in related field in a hospital or clinical settings
· Desired:
Department of Health (DOH) license with title as a Clinical Social worker
More than 5 years’ experience as a Clinical Social Worker.