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Social Worker
Remuneration: | basic salary |
Benefits: | None |
Location: | Cape Town, Plumstead |
Education level: | Degree |
Job level: | Senior |
Own transport required: | Yes |
Type: | Permanent |
Company: | Constantiaberg Haematology |
We are looking for a social worker. This is a 1/2-day permanent position based at a busy haematology practice in the southern suburbs of Cape Town,Western Cape.
Key purpose:
- To provide counselling and psycho-social support to patients diagnosed with cancer or life-threatening blood disorders and their families.
- To coordinate additional support services and resources offered by internal and external stakeholders to the haematology unit.
- To be responsible for the accurate management of the administrative function.
Counselling:
- Facilitate the counselling of and support to the family at the time of breaking bad news.
- Provide ongoing individual and/or group counselling to the patient and family from diagnosis onward
- Prepare the patient and/or parent/family for the medical and treatment procedures.
- Provide end-of-life palliative care and support to the patient and family.
- Provide counselling and/or crisis intervention at the time of the patient`s death.
- Provide bereavement support to the families.
- Ensure appropriate discharge planning is conducted.
- Undertake accurate and comprehensive psychological assessments of families and plan intervention accordingly.
- Assess, consult and refer any cases that require statutory intervention.
- Network with internal and external bodies to enhance support services to the patients in the wards and bone marrow transplant unit as well as their families.
- Assess and prepare and facilitate stem cell transplant patients ahead of their transplants.
- Regularly attend hand-over, ward and team meetings
- Consult with the hospital and patient's post discharge reintegration into home, work and community.
- Update and maintain the patient database regularly with psychological support services data.
- Complete and submit monthly reports-basic statistics on patients seen, wards versus outpatient, stem cell transplant.
- Administer and record accurately the practical support services according to policies and procedures.
Required:
Qualification:
- A recognised BA social work degree (honours) with majors in social work and psychology.
- Up to date proof of registration with the SA Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP).
- Minimum three years of experience as a qualified social worker in the health sector with experience working within an interdisciplinary team.
- Proficiency in both written and spoken English and Afrikaans
- Experience of collaborating with patients diagnosed with blood disorders, and their families compromised by life-threatening illnesses or other life traumas.
- High level of professional integrity, maturity, high stress tolerance, comfortable in the field of loss, death and dying.
- The ability to work independently and yet within the broader multidisciplinary team.
Company Description
HaematologyPosted on 29 Jul 08:59, Closing date 26 Sep
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