Nova Scotia Mental Health Social Work Professional

4 weeks ago

Middleton, Nova Scotia, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time
About the Opportunity

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in the province, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. Our mission is to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through collaboration, reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. We provide 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 our diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today. Our professionals are employed in all corners of our beautiful province, offering a unique work-life balance that allows you to explore, discover, and participate in the coveted Atlantic lifestyle.

About the Role

As a Social Worker with Nova Scotia Health, you will be responsible for delivering time-limited, evidence-based psycho-social assessments and treatments to adults (19 years and older) with Tier-3 mental disorders. You will work within a Stepped Care framework and be guided by disorder-based clinical care pathways. Each clinician participates in a consultation group to ensure collegial support, accountability, and effectiveness of assessments and treatments.

You will ensure that the principles and practices that guide our work, such as our mission, vision, values, expected behaviors, leadership philosophy, organizational health, population health, ethics, safety, quality, partnerships, and interprofessional collaboration, are integrated within the services you provide and through the messages you deliver.

About You

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Social Worker who possesses the following qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Social Work
  • Registered or eligible to be registered with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers (NSCSW)
  • Two (2) years of clinical experience working with an adult population providing time-limited, evidence-based psycho-social assessments and treatments to adults (19 years and older) with Tier-3 mental disorders
  • Demonstrated skills in DSM formulation
  • Demonstrated skills in applying time-limited, evidence-based psycho-social assessments and treatments for mental disorders to an adult (19 years and older) patient population, and commitment to same
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Stepped Care principles, clinical care pathways, and outcomes monitoring, and commitment to same
  • Demonstrated knowledge of clinical supervision, learning, and professional development, and commitment to same
  • Demonstrated skills in providing culturally informed, non-judgmental patient and family-centered care, and commitment to same
  • Experience in providing supervision to psychology residents, students, and peers
  • Motivated with a strong customer service orientation, building solid healthcare patient/partner relationships
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize information, problem-solve, and utilize good judgment in decision-making
  • Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement initiatives and evidence-based practice
  • Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning and professional development
  • Experience working with allied healthcare professionals and medical specialists
  • Experience training and/or acting as a resource for other allied healthcare professionals and medical specialists
  • 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.

Compensation and Benefits

This long-assignment, full-time position offers a competitive salary of $37.31 - $49.04 per hour. Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package, which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage, as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

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 and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile.

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