Social Worker Msw- Adolescent Medicine Programs

1 week ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada SickKids Full time

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:

Social Worker, MSW - Adolescent Medicine Programs - Transgender Youth Clinic (TYC FTE Permanent**The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a leading specialty pediatric hospital providing complex, innovative care and treatment to children, youth, and families. Serving a diversity of patients and families, SickKids social workers are members of the Brain and Mental Health Program and deployed across specialty divisions of the hospital providing a broad range of important clinical supports and interventions to ensure caregivers, families and patients receive wholistic, comprehensive care, treatment, and transition planning. Providing services in one of the most diverse cities in the country, SickKids social workers are committed to enhancing health equity, respectful service and inclusion of all populations served by the hospital.


Reporting to the Senior Clinical Manager, Social Work and the Senior Clinical Manager, Adolescent Medicine, the Social Worker will be a collaborative partner with the Interdisciplinary Team in the Transgender Youth Clinic.

This position will provide social work services through in-depth psychosocial assessments and interventions for the youth and caregivers in the TYC.

Through comprehensive psychosocial assessments, the Social Worker will identify adolescent and family strengths, problem-solving abilities, interactions, attitudes, feelings and cultural factors in relation to gender identity.

The social worker will also work with the TYC team to identify local and community supports and resources available to the youth and family.

The team will develop and implement plans of intervention that address coping, relationships, and quality of life.

This will be achieved through a variety of modalities including individual counseling, group facilitation, additional evidence-informed interventions, inter-professional consultation, case management, and community outreach and advocacy.

You will integrate research into practice and create, utilize and/or disseminate new knowledge.

Here's What You'll Get To Do:

  • Conduct psycho/social assessments working in collaboration with other members of the team to develop and implement intervention plans that address coping, adaptation, and quality of life. This is achieved through a variety of modalities including trauma-informed counselling, consultation, case management, crisis intervention, community outreach, and advocacy
  • Provide brief intervention, supportive counselling for youth and caregivers in the TYC,
  • Assume responsibility for all aspects of practice including issues of productivity and utilization
  • Collaborate/communicate with hospital health care teams and community agencies.
  • Practice in a manner that is consistent with the philosophy of continuous quality improvement and evidencebased practice.
  • Collaborate with a diverse interdisciplinary health care team
  • Integrate research into practice
  • Provide education to other members of the team in terms of social work interventions that benefit patients and families
  • Work collaboratively with a dynamic team in a fast paced ever changing environment

Here's What You'll Need

  • A Master's degree in Social Work.
  • Registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.
  • An awareness and appreciation of the challenges youth with diverse gender identities face
  • Welldeveloped assessment and intervention skills including therapeutic skills as well as skills in crisis management, loss and bereavement, parent work and other mental health interventions.
  • Knowledge and experience working with highrisk youth trauma informed, harm reduction approach to care
  • Welldeveloped strengths in advocacy and collaboration.
  • Knowledge of the network of community services and resources; an understanding of health care delivery systems and the practice of social work in a secondary setting is also important.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively as a member of the health c

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