Social Worker I, Msw, Red Fish Health Centre

7 months ago

Coquitlam, Canada PHSA Full time

**Social Worker I, MSW, Red Fish Health Centre, Allied Health**

BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services

Coquitlam, BC

The Social Worker I reports operationally to the Clinical Services Manager and for discipline/practice general supervision reports to the Professional Practice Leader, Social Work. The Social Worker I works collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary team and within a trauma-informed, recovery oriented, culturally safe model of care, and is responsible for providing advanced clinical and consultative social work services to the defined client populations with complex concurrent disorders and their families and focusing on how the client’s relationships are affected by their environment. Duties include conducting mental health, social and psychosocial assessments and substance use assessments as required; providing individual, family and group counselling services, maintaining client records, and attending interdisciplinary clinical/case conferences. The Social Worker I facilitates care throughout the continuum by such methods as identifying applicable community resources for clients, liaising with community services, coordinating resources, consulting with teams, collaborating with community agencies, and participating in education, program planning and research.

**What you’ll do**
- Conducts comprehensive concurrent disorder, mental health and psycho-social and family assessments and substance use assessments as necessary by methods such as interviewing the client and/or family, obtaining relevant information, gathering social data regarding the client’s family, environment, living situation, and financial status, and interpreting the data to therapeutically impact the client's and family's coping abilities. Formulates assessment and plan of intervention and intervenes in cases of complex social-emotional or family issues.
- Provides clinical intervention in the context of evidence-based care to clients and their families through individual, family, and group therapy. Provides individual, family and group counselling services by methods such as exploring emotional responSses to illness/injury in order to identify problems, personal concerns and treatment objectives and to facilitate change in coping style, behaviour, attitude, feelings and adaptive responses to an adverse life event. Refers to community services for follow-up as necessary.
- Collaborates with designated care management personnel to facilitate the management of cases with complex discharge needs. Receives referrals from care management personnel and other members of the interdisciplinary team to assist patients/families with complex emotional or social presentations, as well as facilitate care through the continuum.
- Establishes and maintains effective collaborative and constructive liaison relationships with a variety of individuals and groups, including clients and families and others, such as community providers, MCFD social worker, schools, hospitals, and other agencies in order to coordinate services across the continuum of health care.
- Supports clients and their families by providing education, short-term counselling and crisis interventions during adjustments to the assigned health care setting, new diagnosis of health, concurrent disorder, mental health and/or substance use issues, child welfare and custody proceedings and change or loss in health functioning.

**What you bring**

**Education, Training and Experience**
- Master of Social Work from an accredited School of Social Work
- One (1) year related experience in a health care setting with recent related clinical experience working with the designated population group in the applicable program area/setting, such as individuals with complex concurrent psychiatric disorder and/or substance use issues and/or individuals who have a developmental disability and concurrent mental health and/or behavioural issues, or an equivalent combination of education, training or experience.
- Current full registration with the British Columbia College of Social Workers.

**Skills and Abilities**
- Broad knowledge of complex mental health and concurrent disorders/issues, such as substance use or developmental disability, including current trends, best practices and modalities of treatment.
- Broad knowledge of systems thinking in relation to social work process.
- Broad knowledge of other health disciplines and their role in healthcare.
- Broad knowledge of research methodology.
- Broad knowledge of counselling skills and clinical practice models.
- Awareness of and commitment to learning and understanding the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight Report (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), and other related reports.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of In

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