Job Description

The Challenges
Your core duty involves direct practice and will include casework, care planning, counselling, financial assistance to patients and family members. You will work closely with multidisciplinary professionals, participate in ward rounds and organize and facilitate family conferences to pursue holistic care for patients. You will participate in practice research and development of clinical social work.

You will provide person-centred care with an understanding of the person in their own environment and working closely with formal and informal support networks to allow patients to be empowered in decisions they make or to work towards their wishes and wants.

You would also be expected to participate in community engagements to proactively deliver care to the patients and their families. Social work interventions may be centred out of the hospital to anchor care in the community.

You may also be assigned crisis intervention duties which would require priority responses and intensive case management to patients going through personal crisis, including attempted suicide or are victims of abuse.

Senior positions will require you to supervise colleagues, be a team leader, take on administrative roles and lead projects within the institution and the social work fraternity.

Medical disciplines you will work with : General Medicine, Renal Medicine, Rehab Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Palliative Medicine and Psychological Medicine.

Services:

• To provide counselling for patient and family in their understanding of the diagnosis & its implication on ADL functioning, preparing them for the implications on his overall care, coping with illness and recovery and financial needs.
• To address patient\'s and family\'s acceptance of the diagnosis, change in roles, potential stresses and possible coping strategies with patient and family members, and to provide emotional support and motivate patient and family. Moving forward, to assist patient and family to set realistic and achievable goals.
• To identify and make referral to appropriate services based on the multidisciplinary team\'s assessment and patient\'s social circumstances and social goals.
• To explore and harness patient\'s resources for the long term care plans. To facilitate family to make informed decisions, and ensure caregiver is competent and confident in the care before discharge home.
• To make referrals for long term step-down facilities where necessary and eligible, and to arrange for interim care.
• To participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds and case conferences to actively represent patients\' social, psychological and economic circumstances; to influence the team to act in the best interests of patients and families.
• To provide support through end of life issues that patients and families may be facing and work through their grief and bereavement journeys.

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Social Work; Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work; Master in Social Work
• Post-graduate qualification in Counselling or Family Therapy will be an added advantage
• Competent in IT skills and minimally bilingual
• All qualifying staff will need to be Registered Social Workers with Singapore Association of Social Work
• Committed and enjoy working as a team in a fast-paced, innovative and changing environment.

If the role sounds interesting to you, please contact \'careers_alexandra@nuhs.edu.sg\' to understand more on the role. Please indicate the position that you are interested in the subject heading.

National University Health System