Social Worker I, Msw, Red Fish Healing Centre

4 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada PHSA Full time

**Social Worker I, MSW, Red Fish Healing Centre**

BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services

Vancouver, BC

**What you’ll do**
- Conduct 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. Formulate assessment and plan of intervention and intervenes in cases of complex social-emotional or family issues.
- Provide clinical intervention in the context of evidence-based care to clients and their families through individual, family, and group therapy. Provide individual, family and group counselling services by exploring emotional responses to illness/injury, identified problems, personal concerns and treatment objectives in order to facilitate change in coping style, behaviour, attitude, feelings and adaptive responses to an adverse life event. Refer to community services for follow-up as necessary.
- Collaborate with designated care management personnel to facilitate the management of cases with complex discharge needs. Receive 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.
- Establish and maintain 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.
- Support 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.
- Attend and/or lead clinical/case conferences as a member of an interdisciplinary team for client reviews, admissions, and discharges as per program requirements by methods such as providing input from a social work perspective on a variety of care issues related to the client, and to ensure proper and effective treatment of the client.
- Provide consultative and direct services to clients, families, staff and community health professionals regarding issues such as adult guardianship, child welfare, advanced directives, domestic violence, abuse or neglect, immigration, housing, financial concerns, or matters concerning government agencies (public trustee) and authorities (courts, police). Advocate for the client and family for resources within the healthcare setting and the community by determining financial and other material needs through assessment and working in coordination with community resources to meet these needs.

**What you bring**

Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Social Work from an accredited School of Social Work.
- Minimum one (1) year recent, related experience working in a health care setting 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 & Knowledge
- 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.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to provide crisis intervention, short term counselling and individual, family and group therapy.
- Broad knowledge of legislation and government policies and procedures, including the Mental Health Act, that relate to the client and their family
- Commitment to develop knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents - including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019

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