SOCIAL WORK CAREERS
Hospital social workers are core members of multidisciplinary healthcare teams. They help patients and families navigate serious illness, injury and hospitalisation - assessing psychosocial needs, planning safe discharges and safeguarding people at risk.
THE WORK
+Discharge planning and coordinating post-hospital supports`
+`Psychosocial assessment of patients and carers`
+`Safeguarding responses for patients at risk of harm`
+`Adjustment-to-illness counselling and grief support`
+`Linking families to community services, NDIS and My Aged Care
+Public and private hospitals`
+`Emergency departments`
+`Rehabilitation and subacute services`
+`Palliative care teams`
+`Community health centres
YOUR PATHWAY
The IHM BSW includes 1,000 hours of supervised field education across at least two distinct practice settings - health placements such as hospital and community health teams are a core part of the placement network.
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