palliative care social worker (EN)
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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.
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Source aliases (EN)
- hospice care assistant
- palliative and hospice social worker
- palliative care assistant
- hospice nursing assistant
- hospice worker
- hospice carer
- palliative care supervisor
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 71
- apply anti-oppressive practices
- provide social counselling
- support social service users at the end of life
- social work theory
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- work within communities
- meet standards of practice in social services
- empower social service users
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply case management
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply crisis intervention
- legal requirements in the social sector
- protect vulnerable social service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- develop professional identity in social work
- provide support to social services users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- social sciences
- conduct interview in social service
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- plan social service process
- older adults' needs
- promote social change
- advocate for social service users
- prevent social problems
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- negotiate with social service users
- promote service users' rights
- apply person-centred care
- assess social service users' situation
- relate empathetically
- health care system
- comply with legislation related to health care
- listen actively
- manage social crisis
- manage ethical issues within social services
- review social service plan
- apply decision making within social work
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply holistic approach within social services
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- address problems critically
- apply socially just working principles
- promote inclusion
- maintain records of work with service users
- develop professional network
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- palliative care
- report on social development
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- have computer literacy
- tolerate stress
- apply organisational techniques
- stages of bereavement
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- refer social service users
- organise social work packages
- communicate with social service users
- social justice
- counsel on end-of-life care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- company policies
- accept own accountability
- manage stress in the work place
- build helping relationship with social service users
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