Social Work Associate

Job Summary Functions as a Social Work Assistant in collection of biodata of patient/family through interviews.

Provides social information to the Medical Social Worker to facilitate intervention in management of patient care.

Manages routine cases independently.

• Casework / Psychosocial Care

• Formulate case assessment for discussion with Medical Social Workers and make recommendation for intervention

• Formulate assessment of care needs through field visits

• Group Work

• Assist in conducting group work sessions for target groups

• Community Work

• Assist in conducting community needs assessments

• Participate in community mapping

• Co-plan certain segments of community events

• Programme Development and Implementation

• Plan and coordinate projects

• Safe Care

• Contribute to maintenance and improvement of safe care (e.g. quality improvement projects, adherence to Code of Ethics and hand hygiene, etc).

Education Job Requirements

• GCE O’ Level / GCE A’ Level / Diploma