Social Worker, Pediatric Critical Care/inpatient Surgical Care

4 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada IWK Health Centre Full time

**Company**: IWK Health**:
**Req ID**:198356
**Department/Program**:PICU Social Work, Children's Surgical & Critical Care
**Location**: Halifax
**Type of Employment**:Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) for 18 months x 1 position(s)
**Start Date**: ASAP
**Union Status**: NSGEU Hlthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit
**Compensation**: $39.3919 **-**$53.5968 /hour
**Closing Date**: 4 March 2025 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults, and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers, and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families, and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

**The Opportunity**:
Dual reporting to the Managers, Pediatric Critical Care, and Inpatient Surgical Care, Children’s Health Program, the social worker practices as a member of an interdisciplinary team to provide social work services and family-centered care to children, youth, and their families being seen by Critical Care and Inpatient Surgical Care Services. The social worker will have a major role in counseling patients and families who may be coping with stressors associated with acute and chronic illness often requiring lifestyle changes. The social worker will provide assessment, brief therapeutic interventions, and consultations. The social worker will have knowledge and skills in the areas of psychosocial assessment, brief solution-focused and crisis interventions, and inter-professional collaboration. The successful applicant will have experience in trauma-informed care and grief/loss work. The social worker will be responsible for making appropriate referrals and liaising with a range of health and government services with an emphasis on building collaborative partnerships, facilitating resource acquisition, and advocating for appropriate resources to meet the client’s needs. The social worker will be a member of the Critical Care and Inpatient Services and participate in select committees and working groups as required. The social worker will have responsibilities in supervising clinical MSW student placements, teaching, program development, program evaluation, and research as needed. The social worker is also responsible for doing Intake duties for social work services in the Children’s Health Program, coordinating coverage with Critical care and inpatient surgical unit and other services for planned leaves, and working collaboratively with other social workers within the program.

**Hours of Work**:
Monday to Friday (8:30 am - 4:30 pm), on-call rotation, some variations in working times will be required as needed.

**Your Qualifications**:

- Master’s Degree in Social Work required.
- Current license or eligible for licensure with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers required.
- Minimum of two (2) years of clinical experience as a Masters prepared Social Worker required.
- Experience working with children experiencing chronic illness preferred.
- Experience in conducting brief individual and family therapy, case management, advocacy, and community liaison is essential.
- Demonstrated understanding of the social determinants of health and cultural competence required.
- Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in assessment and intervention with children, youth, and families.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Child and Family Services Act required.
- Knowledge of the healthcare system and health policy is an asset.
- Demonstrated excellent time management, organization, decision-making, and problem-solving skills required.
- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication (verbal and written) skills required.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a collaborative, inter-professional team in a variety of settings required.
- Experience in Meditech, MS Outlook, and MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) preferred.
- Competencies in other languages are an asset.

Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.

Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Successful applicants changing unions, b

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