Clinical Social Worker Job at Mafraq Hospital in Abu Dhabi

Job Title: Clinical Social Worker (UAE National ONLY)

Basic Purpose of the Role:

Assists patients, families and significant others with their social, environmental, financial and emotional problems that are related to illnesses or to receipt of care.

Education Requirements

B. Sc. in Social work.

Experience Requirements

    1 year of clinical experience after graduation.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Basic Purpose of the role

• Assists patients, families and significant others with their social, environmental, financial and emotional problems that are related to illnesses or to receipt of care.

Key Responsibilities of the role:
 Corresponding Key Activities performed by the role

Managerial

• Being involved in the daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area, taking into account the changing/competing demands and making decisions about prioritization of caseloads
• Supervising junior staff and ensuring their abidance to going rules and policies as applied and implemented in the Section/Department/Facility
• Conducting and assisting the department head in the performance appraisal of the staff

Technical

• Taking Care Management responsibility for vulnerable clients. This includes the production of comprehensive assessment of client needs, formulization of a social care plan and the identification of relevant resources to meet the individual’s needs.
• Working with individuals and their families at a variety of venues including service users own homes, hospital bases and a range of community settings
• Follow up with psychiatric visits from other hospitals to assess the patient case.
• Recording unusual conditions/limitations, documenting examination time, room number
• Respecting the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing values, spiritual beliefs and customs
• Follow up with approved ER exempted cases of needy patients, and make sure their treatment coverage is processed & directed to the concerned department.
• Promoting and informing an awareness of social care/social work context and anti discriminatory practice to other professionals and facilitate multi-disciplinary working
• Being responsible for maintaining own accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records and those of staff responsible to the post holder, in line with professional standards of practice and within the parameters laid by the section/department/facility
• Promoting, enabling and empowering individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions
• Networking and liaise with other professionals and external organizations to provide services to individuals, families and carers and to challenge and question when necessary in the best interests of the user
• Negotiating a diverse and challenging complexity of needs to a range of providers/agencies and to coordinate the organization of care packages and facilitate access to a wide range of resources and information
• Promoting, enabling and empowering individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions
• Maintaining and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice
• Managing frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances, and maintain substantial mental effort through frequent and intense levels of concentration and attention
• Maintaining the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and others in accordance with professional codes of conduct and relevant legislation
• Acting as an advocate for the patient in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the clients long term care needs.
• Maintaining and assisting in enforcing the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informality recorded.
• Respecting the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing, spiritual beliefs and customs
• Undertaking direct therapeutic work e.g. solution focused therapy.

Deadline Date: 20.03.2014
How to Apply:

Mafraq Hospital is looking for highly qualified allied health professionals who are encouraged to email their CVs to:

 ahr@mafraqhospital.ae