Social Work - Southern Health

Social Work

Description of Service

The Social Work Department assists patients and their families with psychosocial support and advocacy through assessment, counselling, crisis intervention, discharge planning, information provision and accessing community services.

Social Workers undertake a range of psychosocial interventions and implement therapeutic strategies with clients to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Children and families can be faced with a range of issues directly related to their hospital admission, and/or related to external factors which may impact on their long term safety and well being.

Criteria for referral

Patients can be referred to social work where social complexity exists and/or there is evidence of potential risk factors that may impact on a patient’s safety and well being.

Hours of Service:
Monday to Friday – 8.30am to 5.00pm

After Hours

The After Hours Social Work Service is provided for:

Sudden, unexpected, and/or traumatic death
Unusually high levels of family conflict/distress over treatment/end of life decision making
Traumatic and/or life threatening injury
Children at risk – where requested by medical staff managing the child in the emergency department, or when the child is admitted to the paediatric ward

Referral Method

Business Hours:
Contact the Social Work Department on 9594 2290

After Hours:
Contact switchboard 9594 6666 and request the on-call social worker.

Published Date: October 1, 2009
Printed from http://www.monashchildrens.org.au/page/Parents/Allied_health/Social_Work/
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