Description
Job Summary:
We are recruiting a Social Worker to provide psychosocial support and follow-up to patients and their families, promoting their social reintegration.
Key Highlights:
1. Psychosocial support and development of care plans
2. Focus on social reintegration and development of individual potential
3. Multidisciplinary team collaboration and professional ethics
**Continuous Care Unit**, located in Leiria, seeks to recruit a Social Worker under a full-time individual employment contract.
**Role:**
Ensure appropriate patient and family support, emphasizing the relevance and centrality of psychosocial factors as determinants or facilitators of treatment, rehabilitation, readaptation, and reintegration of patients/dependents into the most suitable and supportive social environments, fostering the development of all their potential.
**Among other responsibilities, the following stand out:**
\- Reception
\- Development of the individual care plan
\- Psychosocial support
\- Preparation of care continuity, whenever necessary \- Participation in multidisciplinary meetings (when required).
**Requirements:**
Bachelor's Degree / Integrated Master's Degree in Social Work (mandatory);
Experience in Continuous Care Units and/or training in Gerontology (*preferred*);
Registration with the Portuguese Order of Social Workers;
Relevant complementary training;
Good computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (*Word*, *Excel*, *PowerPoint*).
**Competencies:**
Professional ethics;
Responsibility;
Analytical ability;
Autonomy;
Empathy;
Patient orientation;
Team spirit;
Strong communication skills;
Type of position: Full-time