O assistente social, demandas, contextos e desafios quanto a articulação com a rede de assistência.

Abstract

This work is the result of the experience of curricular internship in Social Work, carried out at the Medical Clinic Unit, located on the 5th floor of the Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria (HUSM). During the internship, which covered the period between April 2018 and October 2018, the aim was to apprehend the professional practice of the social worker in a Clinical Treatment Unit, as well as to intervene with a Social Service orientation in health, in relation to the users who need social and assiduity monitoring and access to the Unified Health System (SUS), identifying this particular profile. The present work aims to identify the challenges and perspectives of the social worker's work, with regard to health, since it is characterized as the right of everyone and the duty of the State, according to the Federal Constitution (1988), but it faces various problems in relation to its effectiveness as a social right. It highlights the trajectory of health in Brazil until it is assured in Law, mentions public policies, and ends with two reports of the trainee's intervention.