Tasks

As part of a multi-professional treatment team of medical staff, nurses, psychologists and therapists, the social service is primarily responsible at the interface between inpatient treatment and the outpatient support system and performs the following tasks:

Psychosocial support

• Accompanying, resource-oriented discussions with patients and their relatives
• Counselling in the event of family problems such as separation and divorce
• Support with parenting issues
• Offering discussions with couples
• Referral to advice centers and family therapy
• Contact with the youth welfare office or district social work
• District social work

Work and employment

• Notification of sickness
• Help with problems at work
• Stage-by-stage reintegration
• Dismissal
• Retraining
• Medical and vocational rehabilitation and Further qualification
• Applications for the determination of a disability
• Job search
• Support with job applications

Social law advice

• Support and contact in negotiations with health insurance companies, offices, pension and
  social insurance providers, legal guardians
• Application for unemployment benefit and basic housing security
• Help in the event of imminent dismissal or loss of accommodation
• Support in finding accommodation
• Placement in assisted shared flats or assisted single living,
  transitional residential homes, Long-term care facilities

Post-clinical support

• Mental health advice centers
• Self-help groups
• Day centers
• All kinds of leisure activities and social contacts
• Organization of home care such as care services, meals on wheels,
  medication service, day care (mediation and cost clarification)

Head: Nina Müller (Nina.Mueller@mri.tum.de)

Team members

• Vajda Heinke (Vjada.Heinke@mri.tum.de)