Senior / Medical Social Worker

• Palliative Care Provider
• Part of Interdisciplinary Specialist Palliative Care Team
• Collaborative Working Environment

Responsibilities:

• Provide and facilitate socio-economic evaluations to help patients and their families address practical concerns, such as financial matters, which are often an issue at the end of life
• On-going individual and family counselling through face-to-face sessions or home visitations in order to help navigate the personal and ethical dilemma, cultural conflict and issue relating to religion, spirituality and the meaning of life
• Work with the broader community which includes educational, religious, and social service organizations so that patients and their families can achieve optimal end of life goals
• Engage families involvement and encourage their visits, as well as prepares patients / families for the end-of-life stage and managing the life closure and the dying process
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