Social Worker

Roles & Responsibilities

• 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 counseling 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)
• Update residents’ profile and movement in database.
• Review next-of-kin details and update residents’ social reports.

Requirements:

• 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 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).

Competencies:

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