Medical Social Worker (m/f), Auckland in Auckland, Auckland
Your tasks:
- Organize support groups or counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting the client or patient
- Investigate child abuse or neglect cases and take authorized protective action when necessary
- Oversee Medicaid- and Medicare-related paperwork and recordkeeping in hospitals
- Plan discharge from care facility to home or other care facility
- Advocate for clients or patients to resolve crises
- Utilize consultation data and social work experience to plan and coordinate client or patient care and rehabilitation, following through to ensure service efficacy
- Develop or advise on social policy and assist in community development
- Modify treatment plans to comply with changes in clients' status
- Counsel clients and patients in individual and group sessions to help them overcome dependencies, recover from illness, and adjust to life
- Conduct social research to advance knowledge in the social work field
- Collaborate with other professionals to evaluate patients' medical or physical condition and to assess client needs
Your skills:
- Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly
- Managing one's own time and the time of others
- Actively looking for ways to help people
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
- Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
Location
Auckland
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