Carry out social service activities, providing support to patients and their families in social, economic, and cultural aspects related to the health–illness process, proposing measures that contribute to the implementation of medical treatment. **Responsibilities and Duties** * Provide social services to patients of the Institution, identifying and analyzing material, emotional, psychological, or other types of problems, applying fundamental social work methods to assist in patient recovery and promote reintegration into social, family, and occupational environments; * Diagnose and develop intervention plans addressing the social and emotional dimensions of the healthcare team–patient relationship through bedside social interviews, aiming to provide psychosocial support and ensure ongoing case follow-up; * Maintain the emotional well-being of the patient and/or family through supportive interventions, modifying attitudes and seeking solutions; * Develop an annual action plan outlining initiatives to be implemented, designed, and/or proposed; * Facilitate communication between the healthcare team and patients’ families, enabling direct contact between both parties for clarification regarding diagnosis and planned treatment; * Support patients throughout various stages of illness (hospitalization, convalescence, and community reintegration); * Counsel patients’ families upon discharge, death, or other significant events through individual or group interviews, delivering psychosocial support; * Attend to patients requiring home oxygen therapy and domiciliary hospitalization by interviewing them and their families, guiding them toward available resources offering such services, referring them accordingly, and striving to improve quality of life while preventing rehospitalization; * Attend to victims of abuse, conducting interviews with patients and their families, maintaining records, and submitting reports to the Juvenile and Children’s Court, Police Station’s Child Protection Unit (CT), Elderly Council, CRAS (Centro de Referência de Assistência Social), and Social Promotion agencies; * Attend to women who have suffered sexual abuse or other forms of victimization, providing psychosocial support to both patient and family; * Attend to indigent patients by contacting municipal shelters to secure vacancies and arranging transportation post-discharge; * Request ambulance transportation for patients from their municipality of residence upon discharge; * Accompany family members during patient transfer from Adult and Pediatric ICUs, preparing reports and corresponding internal referrals; * Evaluate and discuss cases collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to achieve comprehensive understanding of diagnosis and proposed treatment. **Requirements and Qualifications** * Completed undergraduate degree in Social Work; * Active registration with the Regional Social Work Council (CRESS); * Prior experience in the field is desirable. **Additional Information** Flexibility in working hours required for rotating shifts (Monday through Friday) Salary Range: BRL 4,800.00 – BRL 5,100.00 (CLT) Benefits: Transportation Allowance, Meal Voucher, Hazard Pay, Life Insurance, Daycare Assistance, and SESC partnership. Work Location: **Taboão da Serra – SP** The **SPDM** – Paulista Association for Medical Development – is a non-profit, philanthropic civil association recognized as being of federal, state, and municipal public utility, respectively under Decrees No. 57,925 dated March 4, 1966; No. 40,103 dated May 17, 1962; and No. 8,911 dated July 30, 1970. The Association’s primary directive is its integration within the health system, focused on treatment, disease prevention, and promotion of primary, secondary, and tertiary health care, strengthening ties with the local community and reaffirming its social commitment to serving all individuals without discrimination. With institutional growth, **SPDM** has expanded its scope of activities through ongoing projects in Social Assistance and Education. This broad range of initiatives further consolidates **SPDM** as a large-scale philanthropic institution pursuing economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Thus, SPDM contributes effectively to the continuous improvement of services provided by Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS), primarily aiming to guarantee universality and equitable access to health services—essential elements for human and social development. Our commitment is to foster an inclusive culture embracing diversity, empowering our staff to deliver their best. All qualified candidates will be considered for open positions without distinction based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, race, nationality, or disability. SPDM is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair employment practices for all individuals meeting minimum requirements. We value idea-sharing, teamwork, respect for diversity, and inclusion. **MISSION** To deliver outstanding, unbiased, non-discriminatory, and non-classificatory health care to all citizens. **VISION** To be recognized as Brazil’s largest and most competent philanthropic health organization. **VALUES** * Capacity Building * Social Commitment * Reliability * Entrepreneurship * Equity * Ethics * Humanization * Quality * Ecological, Economic, and Social Sustainability * Tradition * Transparency **THE HGP** The General Hospital of Pirajussara (**HGP**) was inaugurated on January 25, 1999, following the signing of a management agreement between the Paulista Association for Medical Development (**SPDM**) and the São Paulo State Department of Health. It was among the first public health facilities in the State to be managed by a Social Organization of Health. The **HGP** responded to a longstanding demand from residents of Taboão da Serra, Embu das Artes, and neighboring municipalities for accessible local health reference services—a region historically underserved in medical care. Prior to the **HGP**, any health-related need—whether for simple or complex conditions, especially surgical cases—required residents of these municipalities to travel long distances to hospitals in greater São Paulo. The Hospital directly serves the municipalities of Taboão da Serra and Embu, collectively home to approximately half a million people. Since its inauguration, its operations have aligned with **SPDM**’s mission—to pursue excellence in delivering public health services grounded in social responsibility and commitment to the principles of Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS). Over 21 years of service delivery, the **HGP** has successfully achieved **SPDM**’s vision of becoming “an exemplary public service, recognized as a model of care.” Furthermore, consistent with **SPDM**’s stated values, the **HGP**, since its inception, upholds a “social commitment manifested through citizenship actions, health promotion, disease prevention, and environmental protection,” significantly contributing to regional development. The **HGP** was inaugurated amid a period of extreme scarcity of health resources and widespread socioeconomic vulnerability. As part of broader local and regional development strategies and outlooks, its establishment enabled provision of high-risk prenatal care, emergency and urgent hospital care, ancillary diagnostic examinations, and inpatient beds in adult, pediatric, and neonatal intensive care units.