Social Worker Msw - Toronto, Canada - SickKids

SickKids

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About SickKids:

Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world.

As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education.

Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day.

SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of _Healthier Children. A Better World_.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world's best in paediatric healthcare.

Position Description:

Brain and Mental Health Program - The SLAIGHT Mental Health Transition Navigator

As part of its commitment to improving quality of care, SickKids has embarked on an exciting integration of its services that focus on brain and mental health conditions.

The Brain and Mental Health Program is inclusive of programs and services focused on neuroscience, mental health conditions, inter-professional practice and a commitment to system capacity building through innovative partnerships with hospital and community organizations.

This
mental health transition navigator position is initially dedicated to the transition of children, youth and their families from the SickKids Emergency Department into community based mental health services and supports coordinated by Strides Toronto and the Gary Hurvitz Centre for Community Mental Health (GH-CCMH) at SickKids.

The position will work collaboratively with partners at GH-CCMH and at Strides Toronto to support the clinical transition pathway. The position may evolve to include other transitional pathways from acute to community care.

This position will provide service planning, navigation and brief supportive counselling to children and youth experiencing mental health concerns, and their families, to ensure children, youth, and their families, move in through and out of publicly funded mental health services in a timely and seamless manner.

Through psychosocial assessments you will identify child/youth and family strengths, problem-solving abilities, interactions, attitudes, feelings and cultural issues in relation to the child's health and mental health, as well as supports/resources available to the family.

You will assist patients and their families navigate and connect to community and/or resources within their communities that will support their recovery or ongoing treatment.

Collaboration/communication with the health care and community mental health teams are essential.

You will work to liaise with SickKids, SickKids Centre for Community and Mental Health and Strides Toronto colleagues and their networks to provide comprehensive transition care.

This work will be done in collaboration with the other Mental Health Transition navigators at the partner sites.

Some flexible hours will also be a requirement of the role.

Here's What You'll Get To Do:

Conduct psycho/social and motivational assessments with patients and families experiencing acute or chronic complex mental health conditions.
Provide developmentally informed transitional support from the SickKids Emergency Department to community agencies for seamless and effective discharge planning.
Provide family education, counselling and support through brief interventions.
Facilitate multiple care aspects (e.g. case coordination, information sharing, implementation of practical clinical strategies, system navigation).
Coordinate and provide care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient and family centered and meaningful.
Promote quality and costeffective interventions and outcomes.
Develop effective working relationships with SickKids, GH-CCMH and Strides Toronto colleagues and cooperate with relevant community service providers and agencies throughout the entire case management process.
Collaborate/communicate with the interprofessional health care team.
Assume responsibility for all aspects of practice including performance metrics reflecting productivity and utilization.
Practice in a manner that is consistent with the philosophy of continuous quality improvement and evidencebased practice.
Support our academic mandate and supervise Master level students.

Here's What You'll Need:

A Master's degree in Social Work

Registration and good standing with the relevant college.
An understanding and demonstrated competencies in the biopsychosocial model of assessment, developmentally informed care models, and key mental health diagnoses and issues that precipitate a presen