Social Service

The points of emphasis of the social service are advising patients on social legislation and administration, preparation for release, introduction of rehabilitation measures, transfer to homes, home visits, and contacts with auxiliary facilities.

Social service staff members keep in close touch with therapists and nursing staff and take part regularly in ward discussions. A common treatment plan is set up together with patients and therapists; dependants and other persons with a care-taking role may also be brought in.

Moreover, the social service staff keep their professional qualifications up-to-date by participation in specialist training and supervision..

The Centre is represented in the area it serves through contact with the various facilities as well as through committee work, working groups like those for community work, out-patient assistance, the law on patient care, and non-stationary psychiatry.

The social service´s fields of activity:

• Measures for reintegration in society such as reintegration home, accompanied living as singles and couples, etc.;
• Settling claims against benefit providers to ensure social insurance coverage;
• Calculation of treatment costs in unclear cases, advice and assistance with financial support for living expenses, lodging, and job preservation;
• Planning and introduction of rehabilitation measures such as rehabilitation workshop, stepwise reintegration on the job, rehabilitation of the mentally ill programme (RPK), work and endurance testing, etc.;
• Application for nursing homes;
• Organisation of basic conditions;
• Mobilising auxiliary facilities and out-patient services such as the BBD (work accompaniment service), the SpDi (social-psychiatric service), nursing services, social wards, job centre, etc.;
• Committee work in the different districts of the area we serve such as in the working groups for out-patient assistance, the law on patient care, psychiatry, psycho-social work, etc.;
• Work with dependants and assistance to laymen/women;
• Instruction of trainees, students, and persons doing civilian service.