Social Worker I

5 months ago

Vancouver, Canada PHSA Full time

**Social Worker I (BSW), Outpatient Cleft Palate Craniofacial**

BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital & Health Centre

Vancouver, BC

**What you’ll do**
- Conduct foundational social work assessments of patients and families by interviewing the patient and/or family, obtaining relevant information, gathering social data regarding the patient and/or family, and interpreting the data using a variety of assessment tools, in accordance with professional standards, clinical policies and practices relevant to the specific area of care.
- Provide foundational social work and therapeutic clinical counseling services to patients and families in the assigned area of care by exploring the emotional response to identify problems, personal concerns, treatment objectives and facilitates change in coping style, behavior, attitude and feelings and adaptive responses to life events.
- Receive referrals from the interdisciplinary team to participate in the patient, families, community supports and interdisciplinary team meetings to coordinate services, support case management and facilitate meetings, as appropriate relevant to the specific area of care.
- Refer to community services as necessary relevant to the specific area of care area.
- Attend clinical/case conferences as a member of an interdisciplinary team for patient reviews, admissions, and discharges by methods such as providing input from a social work perspective on a variety of care issues related to the patient, and ensuring proper and effective treatment of the patient relevant to the specific care area.
- Provide consultative and direct services to patients, families, team members and community health professionals relevant to the specific care area.
- Prepare and maintain patient records by methods such as documenting client assessments, interventions, evaluations, modifications and patient goals, charting patient information, preparing progress notes and reports in accordance with established standards, policies and procedures, to meet regulatory requirements, and provide evidence and rationale that support findings and intervention plan relevant to the specific care area.
- Maintain a variety of records such as workload statistics by methods such as recording information into approved formats, collating data, analyzing trends, accounting for variances, and recommending an action plan as directed relevant to the specific care area.

**What you bring**

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor of Social Work from an accredited School of Social Work and one (1) year post Bachelor of Social Work experience or successful completion of a practicum in a health care setting.
- Current full registration with the British Columbia College of Social Workers.

You will also have
- Foundational knowledge and understanding relevant to the specific care area.
- Ability to provide consultation to patients, families and other healthcare professionals relevant to the specific care area.
- Ability to develop, coordinate and deliver in-services, presentations and support groups relevant to the specific care area.
- Ability to make effective referrals, reflecting knowledge of community resources and strong collaborative skills relevant to the specific care area.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with patients, families, team members and community agency personnel.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate both verbally and in writing, and to deal effectively with co-workers, physicians, other health care professionals, clients and their families, and external agencies.
- Basic knowledge of legislation and government policies and procedures that relate to the patient relevant to the specific area of care.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct and document a psychosocial assessment relevant to the specific area of care.
- Demonstrated ability to draw out and honour information that will contribute to understanding the patient’s circumstance relevant to the specific area of care.
- Demonstrated ability to adjust to new or unexpected events relevant to the specific area of care.
- Demonstrated ability to deal effectively with conflict situations relevant to the specific area of care.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as a member of an interdisciplinary team relevant to the specific area of care.
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position relevant to the specific area of care.
- Computer literacy.
- 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 Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
- Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism and accompanying reports (BC DRIPA, TRC, etc.).

**What we bring**

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether

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