Clinical Social Worker-Sheikh Khalifa Medical

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 problems, providing interventions to enhance patient quality of living.

• Managerial:
  Involved in daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area, taking into account changing/competing demands and making decisions about prioritization of caseloads.
• Potential supervision of junior staff and ensuring their abidance to policies as applied in the Section/Department/Facility.
• Technical:
  Taking Care Management responsibility for vulnerable clients, including comprehensive assessment, formulation of a social care plan and identification of resources.
• Carrying out initial comprehensive person‑centered psychosocial assessments, planning and implementing individual strategies of care to meet identified needs in conjunction with service user, caregiver and multidisciplinary team, updating patient file history as required by JCI.
• Acting as an advocate for the patient, ensuring their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet long‑term needs.
• Consider legal issues for patients admitted and liaise with admitting authorities such as police, judicial, prosecution, providing necessary reports to discharge safely.
• Participate in safe and effective decision making to facilitate safe, timely discharge from bedded units and community teams.
• Liaise effectively with other agencies, including government and charity involved in care, maintaining professional relationships.
• Work closely with patients/families directing them to appropriate resources and support when needed.
• Follow up with psychiatric visits from other hospitals to assess patient case, recording unusual conditions.
• Respect the rights of service user and families, embracing values, spiritual beliefs and customs.
• Follow up with approved ER exempted cases of needy patients, ensuring treatment coverage is processed.
• Promote awareness of social care/social work context and anti‑discriminatory practice.
• Network with other professionals and external organisations to provide services and challenge when necessary.
• Negotiate diverse needs with providers/agencies, coordinate care packages and facilitate access to a wide range of resources and information.
• Promote, enable and empower individuals, families and carers through representation of rights, advocacy, nurturing strengths to make informed choices about complex life decisions.
• Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry, report writing and responsible exercise of professional self‑governance in accordance with professional codes of practice.
• Manage frequent exposure to highly distressing circumstances, maintaining substantial mental effort through frequent and intense concentration.
• Maintain and enforce confidentiality of patient and staff information in accordance with professional codes of conduct and relevant legislation.
• Provide crisis interventions as needed.
• Participate in complex discharge planning with the multidisciplinary team to ensure smooth transition of care for patient and family.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss and advocate for patient and family needs (physical, social and emotional).
• Engage in providing clinically appropriate psychoeducation and direct therapeutic interventions as warranted to address patient and families’ psychosocial needs and concerns.
• Ensure compliance with safety and quality control programs and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with precautions for environmental safety, infection control and interventions that minimise cross‑infection.
• Assist in enforcing strict confidentiality regarding patient information, formally or informally recorded.
• Ensure occupational health and safety compliance for those directly supervised.
• Assist in planning and developing policies that guide the service implementation process.
• Practice within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures.
• Maintain SOPs (standard operating procedures) and Quality Assurance tests in all…