Social Worker (Nursing Home)
Job Description & Requirements
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to regularly review individual residents’ medical, nursing, therapy, and social aspects as part of delivering person-centric care.
- Provide financial counselling prior to admission
- Co-ordinate an assessment on site of the patient to assess nursing/rehab status/behavioural and any social concerns
- Provide therapy/nursing/medical/social recommendations and support family and resident to complete home discharge or other care options
- Review supporting documents for referral to other care options and seek financial assistance for home equipping as recommended by the therapist where required
- Provide counselling to patients with psychosocial issues
- Work with resident or next-of-kin on financial considerations (e.g. Government Means Test subsidy)
- Review cases and facilitate meetings for Medifund cases
- Apply for financial assistance (e.g. Means Test, Medifund, IDAPE, ELDERSHIELD, MFEC) Reports
- Update residents’ profile and movement in database
- Review next-of-kin details and update residents’ social report
Requirements:
- Minimum Degree in Social Work.
- At least 2 years of experience as a Social Worker in a Restructured/Community Hospital or Nursing Home.
- Ability to converse in local languages so as to be able to communicate with residents and next-of-kin.
- Keen to work in eldercare sector.
- Team player with good interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
- Accredited with Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW).
COMPETENCY AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL
Must-Have Competencies
- Advocacy and Representation – Level 4
- Case and Care Planning – Level 4
- Casework Evaluation – Level 4
- Social Service Programme Development – Level 4
- Social Service Programme Evaluation – Level 4
- Social Service Programme Implementation – Level 4
- Stakeholder Management
Good-To-Have Competencies
- Collaborative Practices Across Disciplines and Sectors – Level 4
- Diversity Awareness and Management – Level 4
- Emergency Response and Crisis Management – Level 4
- Ethics, Values and Legislation – Level 4
- Practice Supervision – Level 4
Critical Core Skills
- Communication – Intermediate
- Influence – Intermediate
- Collaboration – Intermediate
- Adaptability – Intermediate
- Decision Making – Intermediate
*For more information, please refer to Technical Skills and Competency (TSCs) and Critical Core Skills (CCSs) in Skills Framework for Social Service Industry via this website https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/skills-framework/social-service
