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Palliative Care Social Worker

Palliative care social workers provide assistance and counselling to patients with a chronic or a terminal disease and their families with the practical arrangements. They arrange the required medical care for the patient and help the family to adjust to the diagnosis by providing support and attention to their emotional needs, helping them to understand their options.

Essential Skills and Competencies

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  • • Accept Own Accountability • Address Problems Critically • Adhere to Organisational Guidelines • 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 • Assess Social Service Users' Situation • Build Helping Relationship with Social Service Users • Communicate Professionally with Colleagues in Other Fields • Communicate with Social Service Users • 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 • Counsel on End-of-life Care • Delegate Activities • 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 • Evaluate Older Adults' Ability to Take Care of Themselves • Follow Health and Safety Precautions in Social Care Practices • Handle Conflicts • Have Computer Literacy • Involve Service Users and Carers in Care Planning • 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 Organisation • 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 • Refer Social Service Users • Reflect on Practice • Relate Empathetically • Report on Social Development • Review Social Service Plan • Support Social Service Users at the End of Life • Tolerate Stress • Undertake Continuous Professional Development in Social Work • Work in a Multicultural Environment in Health Care • Work in Multidisciplinary Health Teams • Work in Partnership with Social Services Users • Work Within Communities

Knowledge

  • • Company Policies • Health Care System • Legal Requirements in the Social Sector • Older Adults' Needs • Palliative Care • Social Justice • Social Sciences • Social Work Theory • Stages of Bereavement

Alternative Related Job

  • • Hospice Care Assistant • Palliative and Hospice Social Worker • Palliative Care Assistant • Hospice Nursing Assistant • Hospice Worker • Hospice Carer • Palliative Care Supervisor

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