Social Worker Bsw, Tertiary Older Adult Program
7 days ago
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Detailed Overview:
Reporting to the Program Coordinator and receiving Clinical Social Work support from the Clinical Chief and as a member of the interdisciplinary team, the Social Worker provides comprehensive therapeutic mental health interventions and conducts comprehensive Social Work and geriatric assessments of older adult patients', personal support systems, social history, strengths and resources from a psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR) and recovery perspective an develops relevant care plans for patients.
Educates and provides support and consultation to patients, families and healthcare professionals to achieve established goals of care and assists with care transitions when discharged.
As a member of the Tertiary Older Adult Acute program interdisciplinary team, the Social Worker actively promotes the philosophy of Geriatric Services while providing direct and indirect social work services to patients, families and staff.
Responsibilities:
- Provides comprehensive therapeutic mental health interventions to patients focusing on the family, social, emotional, and cultural needs of the patients; provides psychoeducation to patients and their families; develops, implements, evaluates and documents psychosocial care plans including life skills training in the areas of personal life and leisure in collaboration with the patient, family and interdisciplinary team members.
- Assist in the development and implementation of unit social work assessments through patient and family interview and other available sources of information to determine and to describe the social and emotional factors pertinent to the patient's situation. Evaluates the need for service/intervention.
- Plans social work interventions that are directed at resolving patient care problems and/or achieving treatment goals, in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. Provides social work counselling services including individual, family and resource counselling to facilitate changes in identified nonfunctional behaviour, attitude, feelings and/or environment.
- Participates by taking a lead role in the admission, discharge and transfer of patients within the Tertiary Older Adult Acute program.
- Determines the financial needs of patients and assists patients and families by working in coordination with community resources to meet these needs.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of Social Work interventions and communicates to the interdisciplinary team and the physician/psychiatrist of changes in the patients' condition; assists in the development, implementation and evaluation of patients care plan. Seeks clinical social work direction from the Chief of Social Work as necessary.
- Participates in interdisciplinary activities such as resident conferences and daily/weekly report meetings.
- Observes, identifies, assesses, and assists with managing potential emergency situations involving patients and develops short term strategies to deal with such situations.
- Maintains patient records by methods such as documenting patient assessments, charting patient information, preparing progress notes, discharge summary and other reports in accordance with established standards. Completes workload statistics, program records and reports for submission to Program Coordinator or Clinical Chief of Social Work as required.
- Develops, coordinates and delivers inservices, presentations, psychoeducational and support groups and/or training related to mental health by methods such as collaborating with team members of the interdiscipl
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