Social Worker - Palliative Care
Core
Provide specialist psychosocial assessment, counselling, and bereavement support to patients and families navigating complex illness, grief, and loss within a palliative care setting.
Role type
Specialist Social Worker (Palliative Care)
Builds
Responsive, evidence-based palliative and bereavement services
Domain
Healthcare / Palliative Care / Psychosocial Support
Required skills
psychosocial assessment, counselling, grief and bereavement support, interdisciplinary collaboration, clinical judgement, advocacy, community partnership building, staff education and supervision
Preferred skills
health experience in complex psychosocial care, understanding of palliative care models
Responsibilities
Provide psychosocial assessment, counselling and bereavement support; Advocate for patients and connect families with community services; Identify grief risk and provide tailored support and referral; Advise teams and agencies on specialist psychosocial care; Lead education, supervision and support for staff and students; Build community partnerships around grief, loss and resilience; Shape service improvement, research and best practice models