Full Time Social Worker - Hospital

• Conducts comprehensive social work and psychosocial assessments of patients and families
• Provides comprehensive therapeutic clinical services such as grief and bereavement counseling to patients and families
• Provides consultation and education to patients, families and other healthcare professionals
• Maintains patient records
• Provides leadership to the interdisciplinary team in the area of patient care planning such as discharge planning and hospital stay
• Arranges meetings on patient admissions to assist in developing and coordinating care plans and community services
• Communicates with community health and social agencies
• Acts as a clinical resource to patients and their families
• Participates as a member of local committees and planning bodies
• Maintains a variety of records such as workload statistics
• Develops, coordinates and delivers in-services, presentations, psycho-educational and support groups and/or training
• Initiates, develops and carries out research activities and program planning and development
• Maintains broad development in the social work profession
• Works as an integral member of the team
• Performs other related duties as assigned

• Master's degree in Social Work from an approved school of Social Work
• One (1) year recent, related acute care clinical experience
• Current full registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding emotional and mental health issues related to illness, injury and patient and family cultural dynamics
• Comprehensive counseling skills including crisis counseling, brief therapeutic interventions and loss and grief applicable to patient, families and their support networks
• Ability to educate and provide consultation to patients, families and healthcare professionals
• Ability to develop, coordinate and deliver in-services, presentations, psycho-educational and support groups
• Ability to provide leadership to the interdisciplinary team in care planning for the effective utilization of patient resources
• Ability to make effective referrals, reflecting in-depth knowledge of community resources and strong collaborative skills in working with community health and social agency personnel
• Ability to effectively work independently and with others including working effectively in a multicultural environment, as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to initiate, develop and carry out research activities
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with patients, families, staff and community agency personnel
• Demonstrated ability to organize and prioritize workload in a complex environment
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position

Applicants with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree from an accredited School of Social Work, and a demonstrated equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered