Social Workers are responsible for ensuring continuity of care through the admission, evaluation, treatment, and follow-up processes. This includes coordinating discharge planning and providing case management services based on the patients clinical and community health and social services resources. Social Workers develop and implement treatment approaches which address individual social…
advocacy, citizen’s advice. Be responsible for ensuring that service users’ families and carers are communicated with in reference to sensitive issues relating to the service user’s needs, care and identified risks, as agreed in the care/support planning process. To ensure that service users are accompanied by appropriate staff when attending health and social care appointments outside of the home. To ensure that regular staff and service user meetings are held and minutes taken. To chair these meeting where required and follow up on any actions.…
Family Roles (child, sibling, student, mother, wife, husband, father, provider and protector) Environmental Subsystem: Economic/Basic Needs System We as social workers have to be knowledgeable about diversity and entail cultural competence, when working with other…
Take Home Midterm When working with young children and their families, a social worker must accomplish multiple tasks. One of the first tasks is to complete an assessment in order to get an idea of the situation, and to identify the immediate issues and areas of concern. Once the assessment has been completed, the social worker may create a treatment plan, which includes both short and long term goals. Based on the assessment and treatment plan, the social worker will be able to select a therapeutic intervention that would best meet the needs of the client. The social worker may also provide additional resources to the client to receive further assistance that is needed to meet their individualized needs.…
Introduction Since most hip fractures occur in fragile patients, an important advance in the treatment may be a co-managed, multidisciplinary treatment with orthopaedic surgeons and geriatricians. This multidisciplinary care model (MCM) is implemented in some Tuscan hospitals, while in hospitals with an usual care model (UCM) medical consultation is required only as deemed necessary by the admitting surgeon. The primary aim of this study was to assess the effect of MCM on 30-day mortality, compared with UCM.…
The role of the health and social care practitioner Health care professionals have a duty of care to make sure that the individuals they are working with have enough support to live their lives as they want to and they have control over their own lives. Health and social care practitioners offer a wide range of support and care that is required by individuals as well as their families. They work in many different environments such as hospitals, homes of the clients and nursing homes.…
Ian White, 66, is a vulnerable adult experiencing dementia and cared for at home by his partner, Jackie, 69. Jackie has asked Adult Social Care to assess both their needs as Ian has suffered a couple of falls, with the latest resulting in him staying in hospital with broken bones in his foot. As a result of the request, I have a responsibility as a statutory social worker to help keep Ian at home. Homecare is not only a cheaper option, but it retains familiarity so Ian has a greater chance of remaining independent and achieving better outcomes. My duty entails ensuring Ian’s basic needs are adequately met and providing Jackie with appropriate support to fulfil her own needs and enable her to continue in her caring role.…
People who were born into a disadvantage environment may not get the basic change as the people who are born into a advantage environment, such as the materials or resources as others have. this might be considered the norm, an example in health and social care is when an individual may not have adequate medical care that others have in change to do. For example in the health and social care setting is when the child who doesn't live in a good condition house can have a bad affect on their health this is because there may be damp, mold or drafts which can affect them by falling ill and it can leave them with a long term…
The awareness of poverty amongst children is imperative. Medical social workers’ assessment should evaluate poverty levels and its relation to the presenting child’s vitamin D deficiency. Amongst marginalized people of color or people in underdeveloped countries skirting nourishment isn't a lifestyle choice. Commonly, malnutrition signifies economic hardships and experience of persistent adversity. Social Workers, within this setting, should provide assistance or referral to supports that can assist with joblessness, disability, and education to prevent genetic inherence of rickets and to stabilize positive prognosis for patients.…
Maureen job as a Hospital Social Worker have task, and responsibilities she have to fulfill when doing the assessment, and also there is a process she has to follow when working with a client.…
Interesting enough the various roles of a social worker is valued in the agency and is expected as part of the job function across all program areas; however, the credentialing of a social worker is not valued. Whether staff is working with infants or seniors, staff actively engage; assess; plan; implement and monitor services for individuals. However, the agency does not require that the employee hold a degree or licensure as a social worker. The agency is expanding upon available mental health services, which are in essentially non-existent in our county for individuals with an intellectual disability and is now providing mental health services to individuals served through the agency. The role of a social worker for our developing mental…
The aims and objectives of a care plan is that all individuals have full involvement in preparation of their care plan to live independently, have as much control over their life expectancy as possible, take part in society on an equal level, with access to gaining as much as a comfortable life and to have the best possible quality of life and retain as much dignity and respect as possible. For myself and all care workers and all other professions for Steven to live in a clean and safe environment, treated with respect, be sensitive to his needs and abilities and for us as staff to provide the appropriate level of care to guarantee the highest possible quality of life within his home. Deliver flexibility, considerately, and in a non-discriminatory…
Beginning with the ethical responsibilities to clienteles, social workers are required to be committed and loyal in promoting clients’ well-being by prioritizing the latter’s interest. Secondly, it is the ethical responsibility of social workers to help clients in identifying and clarifying their goal. This is along with promoting and respecting clients’ right to self-determination, provided the actions or probable actions of clients do not pose serious, predictable, and impeding risk to social workers and other society entities. Social workers are also required to harness clients’ consent by using an understandable language, and demonstrate competency to clients within their certification, educational, licensure, and training boundaries. Also, it is their responsibility to be responsive to clients’ cultural and social diversities during service provision, and to preserve their impartial judgment and professional discretion by shirking conflict of interests.…
These actions may be in the form through practice, community organizing, supervision, consultation administration, advocacy, social and political action, education, and research and evaluation. Social workers pursue to improve the ability of people to address their own needs. Social workers also try to help organizations, communities, and other social institutions to individual’s needs and social…
If service users, carers and social workers work alongside each other instead of against each other they can both give feedback back and forth and work in partnership to form better outcomes for others in similar situations. This will help build up relationships and helps the understanding of both parties. This situation was an impacting one to reflect on as the Congress day was set up to help widen our knowledge and I found it highly beneficial from this specific workshop that 'service users and carers are so diverse and not two are alike.' (Congress day, 2017) This means that a social worker needs to have the skill of adapting to suit the service user and carers needs they are working with.…