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Contact Person Name: 
Antoinette Assaf
Contact Person Position: 
Director
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Description: 

Description

Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family care givers, providing patient education and counseling, and making referrals for other services. May also provide care and case management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.

Job description

  • Collaborate with other professionals to evaluate patients' medical or physical condition and to assess client needs.
  • Collaborate with other professionals to assess client needs or plan treatments, when necessary
  • Advocate for clients or patients to resolve crises.
  • Refer patient, client, or family to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness and to provide access to services such as financial assistance, legal aid, housing, job placement or education.
  • Refer individuals to r work programs.
  • Refer clients to community or social service programs
  • Counsel clients and patients in individual and group sessions to help them overcome dependencies, recover from illness, and adjust to life.
  • Monitor, evaluate, and record client progress according Plan discharge from care facility to home or other care facility.
  • Identify environmental impediments to client or patient progress through interviews and review of patient records.
  • Collect information about clients, related to their social situation.
  • Interview clients to gather information about their backgrounds, needs, or progress.
  • Evaluate potential problems in home or work environments of clients.
  • Organize support groups or counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting the client or patient.
  • Counsel family members of clients or patients
  • Plan and conduct programs to combat s improve community health and counseling services.
  • Plan programs to address community health issues
  • Develop or advise on social policy and assist in community development.
  • Conduct social research to advance knowledge in the social work field

 

Social worker should also possess the following specific qualities:

  • Compassion, as the person will be working people who are in stressful and difficult situations. ...
  • Interpersonal skills.
  • Listening skills.
  • Organizational skills.
  • Problem-solving skills.
  • Time-management skills.
  • Discretion

 

 

Qualifications of the Health care social worker:

  • Medical Social Worker Requirements: Education, Training, Experience
  • Be a graduate from a Bachelor of Social Work, program accredited by the Ministry of Education
  • Maintain current professional state social work licensure/certification or national social work certification.

 

 

 

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Last modified: 
18 Jan, 2020
Intervention Sector(s):
Health
Application Deadline:
Sunday, 26 January 2020
Contract Type:
Full Time
Period of Employment:
one Year, renewable
Salary
N/A
Salary Range:
800 to 1200 (USD)
Education Degree:
Bachelor Degree
Education Degree Details:
Experience Requirements:
3 to 5 years
Arabic Language:
Fluent
English Language:
Very Good
French Language:
Excellent
Country/City: 
  • Lebanon
  • Mount Lebanon