ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital

Allied Health Professionals - Medical Social Work Department
The Tasks of Medical Social Work
As one can note from the chart “other” is the predominant piece which incorporates liaison and linkage work
as well as reporting and recording. Direct work with patients and families combined comes to 47%.
Future Plans
Our first aim is to continue to improve upon our delivery of service to the patients and their families as well
as stimulating and motivating the team. We shall be again rolling out the presentations concerning our role
to all the relevant staff in the hospital. We will also be promoting our profession in the next edition of
Newsround. This work coupled with the national launch of a position paper by the Head Medical Social
Workers Group on our profession and its contribution to the development of the HSE transformation project
should have a positive impact.
We will also be utilising our new premises in 2008. There will be a family/conference room as well as 2
interview rooms available for use.
This will make a fundamental difference to our service delivery to patients and families. In the summer of
2008 we plan to do a review of our clinical supervision process with an external facilitator both from the
supervisees as well as the supervisors perspective. We intend to embrace the Team Based Performance
model once more in order to refocus on targets. Finally we are planning a new training needs analysis in May
2008 to be completed by the whole team.
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