hospital social worker
Hospital social workers provide counselling to patients and their families helping them to better cope with the illness, the emotions surrounding diagnosis, and with social and financial problems. They work in cooperation with doctors, nurses and other health professionals sensitising them on the emotional aspects of a patient. They act as link between patients and medical staff. Hospital social workers also support the patients and their families with the discharge from the hospital.
Also called: public health social worker, hospital discharge social worker, medical social worker, social worker, palliative care social worker
- 69
- essential skills
- 12
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- clinical social workerWhat changes?65 skills in common
- palliative care social workerWhat changes?65 skills in common
- crisis situation social workerWhat changes?63 skills in common
- mental health social worker62 skills in common
- military welfare worker62 skills in common
- rehabilitation support worker62 skills in common
- victim support officer62 skills in common
- gerontology social worker61 skills in common
Essential skills
69- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advocate for healthcare users' needs
- advocate for social service users
- apply anti-oppressive practices
- apply case management
- apply crisis intervention
- apply decision making within social work
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- arrange in-home services for patients
- assess social service users' situation
- build helping relationship with social service users
- clinical social work
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- company policies
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct interview in social service
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- crisis intervention
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop professional identity in social work
- develop professional network
- empower social service users
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have computer literacy
- health care system
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- meet standards of practice in social services
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- negotiate with social service users
- organise social work packages
- plan social service process
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- provide support to social services users
- refer social service users
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- social justice
- social sciences
- social work theory
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work within communities
Optional skills
12- adolescent psychological development
- assess the development of youth
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- older adults' needs
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- psychological counselling methods
- support children's wellbeing
- support social service users at the end of life
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- therapy in health care
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