Clinical Social Worker - UAE NATIONAL

Job Description

Assists patients, families, and significant others with their psychological, social, environmental, financial, and emotional problems by conducting the needed psychosocial assessments related to presenting concerns and providing the necessary interventions to enhance patient quality of living.

• 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.
• Potential supervision of junior staff and ensuring their abidance to rules and policies as applied in the section/department/facility.
• Taking care‑management responsibility for vulnerable clients, including comprehensive assessment of client needs, formulation of a social care plan, identification of resources, and coordinating delivery of plans with government or charity agencies.
• Carrying out initial comprehensive person‑centered psychosocial assessments, planning and implementing individual strategies of care to meet identified needs with the service user, caregiver and multidisciplinary team, and updating the patient file history as required by JCI.
• Acting as an advocate for the patient to ensure that their expressed wishes are central in planning care to meet long‑term needs.
• Addressing legal issues for admitted patients, liaising with authorities such as police, judiciary, prosecution, and providing necessary reports to discharge patient safely.
• Participating in safe and effective decision making to facilitate a safe, timely discharge from bedded units and community teams.
• Liaising effectively with other agencies including government and charity, maintaining close professional working relationships.
• Working closely with patients/family to direct them to appropriate resources and support when needed.
• Following up with psychiatric visits from other hospitals to assess patient cases, recording unusual conditions/limitations, and documenting examination details.
• Respecting the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing values, spiritual beliefs and customs.
• Following up with approved ER exempted cases of needy patients, ensuring treatment coverage is processed and directed to the concerned department.
• Promoting awareness of social care/social work context and anti‑discriminatory practice to other professionals and facilitating multidisciplinary working.
• Networking and liaising with other professionals and external organizations to provide services and challenge when necessary in the best interests of the user.
• Negotiating complex needs with a range of providers/agencies, coordinating care packages and facilitating 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 the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry, reporting and responsible exercise of professional self‑governance in accordance with professional codes of practice.
• Managing frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances, and maintaining substantial mental effort through concentration and attention.
• Maintaining confidential information about patients, staff and others in accordance with professional codes of conduct and relevant legislation.
• Providing crisis interventions as needed.
• Participating in complex discharge planning with the multidisciplinary team to ensure smooth transition of care for patient and family.
• Participating in multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss and advocate for the patient and family needs (physical, social, and emotional).
• Providing clinically appropriate psychoeducation and direct therapeutic interventions to address patient and families’ psychosocial needs and concerns.
• Evaluating, assisting and counseling children and their caregivers when dealing with child protection issues.
• Contributing effectively to breaking bad news and the bereavement process to patients and their families following the facility’s…