Social Worker Ii - St. Albert, Canada - Alberta Health Services

Alberta Health Services

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St. Albert, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Your Opportunity:

Social Work at the Sturgeon Hospital provides a unique opportunity to work to your full scope of practice.

This position requires both a high degree of independent critical thinking as well as the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

You will have the opportunity to provide advanced level clinical Social Work services including mental health and substance use assessments, crisis intervention and counselling with patients and families in the emergency room and acute care hospital setting.

Working from a concurrent capable perspective, you will be required to prioritize workload, formulate assessments, and create intervention plans.

These plans include psychosocial interventions, comprehensive risk assessment, and recommendations and provision of referrals for ongoing treatment and/or discharge planning.

The Social worker will demonstrate exceptional communication skills with patients, family members and physicians.

On evenings and weekends the Social Worker responds to emergent needs across all units of the Sturgeon Community Hospital (ICU/CCU, Labour and Delivery, Surgery, and inpatient units and ER).

This requires a sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act, the Alberta Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act, and the options for patients to receive health care treatment when their decision-making ability is impaired.

In addition, working knowledge of discharge planning, community resources, financial supports and processes related to transitions to alternate levels of care are an asset.

This position will primarily be based on the inpatient medicine units.

Description:

As a Social Worker II, you will be a member of an inter-disciplinary team and provides a range of social work services to patients and their families

Your services may include:

psychosocial assessment, resource-based interventions, individual, group and family treatment, risk screening, counselling, case management and coordination, transition or discharge planning, and prevention, promotion and public awareness activities.

Classification: Social Worker II
Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
Unit and Program: Social Work and Discharge Services
Primary Location: Sturgeon Community Hospital
Location Details: As Per Location
Multi-Site: Not Applicable
FTE: 1.

00

Posting End Date: 03-MAR-2023

Employee Class: Regular Full Time

Date Available: 13-MAR-2023

Hours per Shift: 7.75
Length of Shift in weeks: 12
Shifts per cycle: 60
Shift Pattern: Days, Weekends
Days Off: As Per Rotation
Minimum Salary: $37.80
Maximum Salary: $50.26
Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Completion of bachelor's degree in Social Work. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).

Additional Required Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

Previous experience with Connect Care Preferred. Completion of a Master's degree in Social Work Preferred. Experience working in the ER as a Social Worker an asset. 5 years' experience working in an acute care setting Preferred. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP). Previous experience working in Mental Health, or with Mental Health Assessment an asset.