Social Worker

The Social Worker works with people to support them through difficult times and ensure that vulnerable people, children and adults have access to health care. Their role is to provide support to enable service users to help themselves, to assist the hierarchy in running support or operational activities for specific sectors and maintains contacts with external interlocutors, in agreement with Senior Social Worker and/or Hospital Project Manager (HPM). Contributes to the implementation and monitoring of specific projects / programmes within the department.   Main responsibilities Performs initial screening and evaluation of patient and families for vulnerability in relation to ICRC criteria of admission to RHUH project to assess and review their situation; Facilitates, educates and refers relatives of vulnerable patients to understand possibilities of financial coverages through humanitarian actors. Collaborates with members of the health team, the patient/family to assure patients’ psychosocial and socioeconomics needs are addressed wherever possible; Collaborates with hospital administration for the vulnerable patients in relation to ICRC admission criteria. Educate patients and families on the roles of health care team members; assisting patients and families in communicating with one another and to members of the health care team;  Interprets- translates information related to medical and surgical treatment plan to patients and other health care team members; Coordinates patient discharge and continuity of care planning with respective health care team members and other humanitarian actors or agencies; Liaises with SSW / HPM for decisions related to patients’ admissions to ICRC Emergency project at RHUH; Recognizes patients with underlying mental illness, provides and/ or makes necessary referrals for ICRC MHPSS delegate or to other NGOs;   Profile Social Worker diploma (and university degree) 3 - 5 years’ work experience in SW with refugees or vulnerable medical people Very good knowledge of spoken and written English Very good computer skills Good communication skills Good analytical skills Good team leadership skills Good teamwork skills