Health Care Social Worker

3 days ago

Windsor, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time

**Req ID**:192042**
**Location**:Central** Zone,**Hants Community Hospital**
**Department**:PHC CZ WH CDW HHWT**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent**Hourly FT** (**100%**) x**1**
**NSGEU** **Healthcare** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:6-Jan-25**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
The Hants Health and Wellness Team (HHWT) is an integrated chronic disease management and wellness team that offers individual and group-based services. Reporting to the Health Services Manager, the Health Care Social Worker (B) demonstrates flexibility in innovation in 1:1 client care and group-based programming. They are a member of an interdisciplinary health care team providing collaborative, holistic care. Social Workers are primarily concerned with the relationships between people and their environments, which are integral to psychosocial, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. The social determinants of health are embedded in social work theory and practice and are the focus for the dynamic and interactive process of engagement, assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation. Social Workers build upon the strengths of patients/clients by focusing on existing coping strategies and problem-solving skills, past successes, and personal resources. They will collaborates with other team members, family physicians, nurse practitioners, other health care providers and community groups.

Responsibilities of the Health Care Social Worker include:

- meeting with individuals and families with complex health and wellness needs to support them to prioritize needs, navigate health care and community resources using a social determinants of health lens.
- counselling individuals and groups with mild to moderate mental health concerns and providing brief interventions to promote self-management of emotional wellness, overall well-being and to improve quality of life
- developing and facilitating group-based programs to address mental wellness needs from both overall all wellness perspective as well as customized for populations with chronic conditions.
- researching, developing, and maintaining in depth awareness of resources within the community and the surrounding areas of the district through a community development, population health and collaborative approach.
- developing community partnerships and conducting community engagement, in collaboration with other multi-disciplinary team members.
- The Health Care Social Worker initiates and follows through with mental wellness interventions and works with members of the integrated chronic disease and management team to provide programs and services.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Bachelor's degree in Social Work from a recognized university
- Current registration with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers
- 2 years' post BSW related clinical experience required
- Previous experience working in community-based setting preferred
- Demonstrated ability to use a client-/family-centered approach
- Familiarity with various evidence-based treatment approaches including Motivational Interviewing and behavioiur change counselling
- Demonstrated experience with group facilitation
- Ability to complete biopsychosocial assessments
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to assist patients and families with navigation of local community resources and agencies
- Valid Nova Scotia Driver's license and access to a reliable vehicle
- Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self-organization
- Demonstrated comfort and skills working collaboratively with community partners
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up-to-date and includes all relevant education, experience, training and certifications

**Hours**:

- Permanent, Full-time position, 75 hours bi-weekly
- Shifts may include evenings ,weekends and holidays

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$35.86 - $45.29 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours

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