Health Care Social Worker (Masters) - Rehabilitation & Supportive Care Services
About The Position
Reporting to the Program Manager of the Bone & Joint department within the Rehabilitation & Supportive Care Services, the healthcare social worker works as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, providing a diverse range of interventions to clients and their families enabling them to achieve their optimal level of functioning and health. These interventions include psychosocial assessments, adjustment therapy, supportive therapy, crisis counseling, resource counseling, discharge planning and case management. The Health Care Social Worker is actively involved in advocacy, education, program planning, consultation and collaboration on behalf of individuals/groups within the institution and community. The role is multifaceted and dynamic requiring the Health Care Social Worker to work autonomously as well as collaboratively.
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Social Work from a recognized university
- Registered or eligible for registration with the NSCSW
- Two (2) years of clinical experience as a clinical Social Worker required
- Strong counselling and communication skills
- Capacity to achieve a high degree of autonomous practice
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team context
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of abortion care and options counselling
- Knowledge of issues related to family violence, sexual abuse, addictions, grief and loss, end of life, disability, crisis intervention, caregiving and continuum of care and intervention skills that come from knowledge of theoretical frameworks/approaches to practice
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
Responsibilities
- Providing psychosocial assessments
- Providing adjustment therapy
- Providing supportive therapy
- Providing crisis counseling
- Providing resource counseling
- Providing discharge planning
- Providing case management
- Advocacy
- Education
- Program planning
- Consultation
- Collaboration on behalf of individuals/groups within the institution and community
Benefits
- health
- dental
- travel
- long-term disability
- life insurance coverage
- defined benefit pension plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
