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Social Work provides services to patients, their families and significant others with the aim of facilitating optimal adjustment to the impact of change in their health status and living environment.
Staffing
Social Workers x 7
Welfare Officer / Transitional Care Co-ordinator
Staff are able to service all hospital areasServices Offered
- Crisis assessment and intervention
- Short term counseling
- Community liaison and referrals for ongoing support
- Staff support and debriefing
- Access to interpreter services
- Group work programs / Patient Education
- Social Work student education / Placements
Areas Covered
| • Resources for patients and families | |
| • Rehabilitation | |
| • Aged Care Planning | |
| • Residential Care Services | |
| • End of life care | - grief and loss / bereavement counseling |
| - palliative care referrals | |
| • Adoption | |
| • General Counseling | - individual |
| - relationships | |
| • Financial
issues |
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| • Centrelink | |
| • Drug and Alcohol related counseling and information | |
| • Legal
Issues - |
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| Information
on: |
- Wills |
| - Guardianship / Administration | |
| - Power of Attorney | |
| • Single parents and social support | |
| • Emergency Foster Care | |
| • Domestic Violence | |
| • Suicide | |
| • Child maltreatment | |
| • Homelessness / Emergency Accommodation | |
| • Pre natal and post natal counseling | |
| • Staff / Peer support | |
| • Group Work | - Cardiac Rehabilitation |
| - Falls and Balance Group | |
| - Young Women's Birthing Program | |
| - Stroke education / support groups | |
Referrals
- Self referral by patients and / or family members
- Any member of the care / treatment team
- Community agencies, other hospitals
- GP
All Counselling is Confidential
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Angliss
Hospital Albert Street, Upper Ferntree Gully, 3156 Phone (03) 9764 6111 Fax (03) 9758
0536angliss.hospital@angliss.org.au |
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Health 2003 |