Assists patients, families, and significant others with their psychological, social, environmental, financial, and emotional problems by conducting the needed psychosocial assessments that are related to presenting problems/concerns by providing the necessary interventions needed to enhance patient quality of living.
- Being involved in the daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area, taking into account the changing/competing demands and making decisions about prioritization of caseloads
- Potential Supervision of junior staff and ensuring their abidance to going rules and policies as applied and implemented in the Section/Department/Facility
- Taking Care Management responsibility for vulnerable clients. This includes the production of comprehensive assessment of client needs, formulization of a social care plan, and the identification of relevant resources to meet the individual’s needs. Where appropriate following assessment, co-ordinate the delivery of social care plans and liaising with the appropriate government or charity agencies
- Carrying out initial comprehensive person centered psychosocial assessments, plan and implement individual strategies of care to meet identified needs in conjunction with the service user, care giver and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate and update the patient file history as required by JCI.
- Acting as an advocate for the patient in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the patient long term care needs
- Consider any legal issues for patients admitted and liase with the admitting authortiy such as police, judicial, prosecution, and provide the necessary reports in order to discharge patient safely.
- Participate in safe and effective decision making to facilitate a safe, timely discharge from bedded units and community teams.
- Liaising effectively with other agencies including government and charity involved in the care of the individual thereby maintaining and enhancing close professional working relationships