Social Worker Social and Discharge Counseling

Spital Nidwalden is a modern acute care hospital with 90 beds, around 600 dedicated employees, and is responsible for extended basic care. As a company of the LUKS Gruppe, we are part of a high-performance network that belongs to the leading hospital groups in Switzerland. Together, we ensure coordinated, digitally networked, and accessible healthcare around the clock with passion and commitment.

We are looking for, immediately or by arrangement, a

Social Worker Social and Discharge Counseling

Social Worker Social and Discharge Counseling

40-60 %

• You advise and accompany patients of all ages and life situations as well as their relatives with professional competence and empathy.
• The position is temporary until April 2027. From spring 2027, there is the option to continue the activity as a permanent position with a workload of 80 to 100 %.
• You advise and inform on social insurance, labor law, financial, and personal questions in connection with the hospital stay and discharge planning. In doing so, you organize individual follow-up solutions, mediate material assistance if necessary, and triage to appropriate specialist centers.
• You independently take over the social work care in the departments assigned to you in the areas of surgery, medicine, and orthopedics.
• Close interdisciplinary cooperation with the entire medical, nursing, and therapeutic treatment team awaits you.
• You have completed your studies in Social Work and already possess experience in a hospital or are about to successfully complete your training.
• Your networked and process-oriented thinking enables you to handle a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders professionally.
• You enjoy working independently, in a solution-oriented manner, and taking responsibility.
• With your humorous and cheerful manner, you enrich our team.
• A varied, responsible, and meaningful activity awaits you.
• You benefit from regular professional exchange, intervision, as well as cooperation with social work professionals and nursing professionals with further training in Case Management.
• You work predominantly paperless, supported by a modern clinical information system, which represents the entire treatment process digitally and comprehensively.

We offer wage equity, a diverse reduced-cost catering offer, as well as other attractive benefits.

You are warm - competent - networked.

Your questions will be gladly answered by Selina Hess, Case Manager, and Monika Bircher, Case Manager, Tel. .

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