Senior Social Worker (Jurong West)

St Joseph's Home, a Person-centred residential healthcare facility located in Jurong West, is redefining the way we take care of our elderly, and would like to invite suitable candidates to apply for the position of :

Senior Social Worker

Key Responsibilities :

• Engage resident and significant others in a therapeutic manner to understand their needs and underlying issues.
• Conduct a bio-psychosocial-spiritual assessment of the resident / family, integrate a range of information from relevant stakeholders, utilize social work principles, legal and ethical framework, and initiate inter-agency conference for complex case to prepare resident for admission, and to justify suitability / unsuitability for admission.
• Apply advanced clinical and professional theories to pre-empt and execute social work intervention plans across resident's trajectory of illness.
• Manage and overcome reluctance and resistance to change. Help residents / significant others to develop and choose strategies and formulate viable plans.
• Follow up and review residents' changing needs and update care plan to ensure relevance and effectiveness of intervention.
• Conducts field visits as and when required.
• Develop protocols and work with residents, families, multi-disciplinary team and relevant stakeholders to arrange for holistic and resident-focused care plans.
• Lead in multi-disciplinary team or inter-agency case conferences to formulate holistic care plan, and to advocate for the protection of resident's dignity, confidentiality and rights, and advocate for improvement of quality of life for residents.
• Provide professional advice or clinical intervention in complex cases
• Provide clinical intervention for crisis (eg suicide or abuse) for the residents / significant others and staffs.
• Provide timely documentation of assessments and intervention in progress notes.
• Provide social reports with proper consent to receiving organization whenever there is a transfer / discharge of residents, to ensure continuity of care. Follow through with telephone contact or email to ensure clarity and completeness of information transferred.
• Review social reports and other documents prepared by junior SWs. Ensure that timely documentation of junior SWs is in place.
• Participate in community development initiatives and provide recommendations for consideration.
• Participate in committee, workgroup, case review meetings, cross-functional or Ministry-level assignments, practice research and development to further develop skills and capability.
• Supervise junior SWs, SWAs / Care Coordinators.
• Oversee projects and programme.
• Conduct and lead clinical audits for quality assurance
• Contribute to review of department processes to increase effectiveness in meeting residents' needs.

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