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Medical Social Worker


SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE PTE LTD
6 days ago
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Reporting to the Principal Medical Social Worker, MSS. The candidate:
  • 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
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JOB SUMMARY
Medical Social Worker
SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE PTE LTD
Singapore
6 days ago
N/A
Contract / Freelance / Self-employed

Medical Social Worker