Medical Social Worker

Reporting to the Principal Medical Social Worker, MSS. The candidate shall: - Provides medical social services for all ages in the areas of counselling, care and discharge planning, financial assessment and assistance, psychosocial assessment for major illnesses and crisis intervention - Identify service gaps and implement continuing service improvements for patients - Provide access and utilise meaningful data to improve service improvement and service recovery - Cultivate teamwork and knowledge-based organisation - Reviews clinical history, and documents observations accurately - Demonstrates good ability in engaging and interviewing patients and families - Identifies and obtains thorough and crucial information and documents psychosocial events in relation to illness chronologically - Applies theoretical and professional knowledge to formulate sound psychosocial assessment - Identifies salient factors that inform psychosocial assessment and substantiates the assessment based on basic theoretical and professional knowledge - Adequately assesses psychosocial situations and risks in patients and families - Applies clinical theories in working with patients and families - Selects best intervention strategy given a psychosocial context - Adequately executes clinical intervention plans - Follows up with cases as necessary - Identifies and utilises appropriate resources in intervention Job Requirement: - Works with patients and families in evaluating and achieving desired outcomes - Demonstrates adequate knowledge of social work, social policies and hospital policies - Updates knowledge in current research evidence and policy changes - Shows interest in learning - Demonstrates willingness and ability to impart knowledge to others (for example, peers and social work interns) - Demonstrates adequate verbal and written communication skills with patients and families, and other healthcare providers in most instances - Establishes rapport with patients and families, healthcare providers (e.g. treatment team), and other departments within the hospital - Demonstrates basic ability to address cultural differences - Identifies impact of self on the patients and systems (and vice versa) - Participates in and/or takes responsibility for projects and activities which support the goals of the department and hospital as assigned by MSW Lead and above - BA or BSS in Social Work, registered MSW

• Senior Medical Social Worker

  Tengah General and Community Hospital · Singapore, Singapore