Health Care Social Worker

**Req ID**:162584**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** **Zone, **Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital**
**Department**:OPCZ Social Work TOH**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly FT long-assignment** **(**100%** **FTE) x **1** **position(s)**
**Status: NSGEU** **Healthcare** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:14-Aug-23**

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**:
Reporting to the Health Services Manager, or delegate, the Health Care Social Worker works in partnership with the tri-facilities along the Eastern Shore in providing services(s) across the NSHA Central Zone, including inpatient departments within the Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital, Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital, and Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital. The MSW also supports two long term care facilities on the Eastern Shore, within a small percentage of the position.

The Health Care Social Worker practices at an advanced level and works in collaboration with respective services and community partners to support clients/patients and families whose needs are complex, defined as unpredictable, multi-faceted and dynamic serious risk and social consequences and requiring a high level of multi-agencies collaboration. He/she works in collaboration with clients/families and service providers to develop individualized plan of care, crisis plan, and community treatment orders (when necessary) to address the complex and challenging needs of the clients/patients. The Social Worker will collaborate with other members of the team while providing comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and care planning, individual and group treatment. This role will also include collection of research data for outcome evaluation, consultations, education and shared care with other health care providers and community members.

The major responsibilities include but not limited to:

- Experience and expertise in conducting structured clinical interviews and counseling
- Demonstrated exceptionally strong clinical knowledge and skills in the field of navigating financial supports and Government programs, with creativity awareness of provincial resources required.
- Demonstrated comfort and competence in community-based practice
- Ability and expertise in developing and conducting patient and family psycho-education groups preferred
- Ability and expertise in developing and presenting psychiatric or related social work educational seminars to health care professionals and community groups, or 1 to 1 preferred
- Experience working with families or substitute decision makers in coordinating plans or care or placements
- Self-directed in their practice
- Exemplary written and communication skills, with strong evidence of same
- Capacity for dealing with challenging clinical situations required
- Ability to work independently and as an effective member of a multiple teams required
- Completes an initial screening assessment to determine eligibility for complex Case Management (individuals deemed unclassifiable for DCS and Continuing Care)
- Coordinates, develops, and monitors plans of care to address the needs of individuals and/or families
- Provides case management support
- Liaises with DCS complex case coordinators to coordinate and facilitate the transition of patients to community placements

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

- Master's degree in social work
- Must be licensed with the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers
- Three years related experience in adult mental health.
- Knowledge of the social determinants of health and the risk factors and social consequences associated with diverse populations in one or more therapeutic modalities
- Critical understanding of the impact of physical, mental, emotional and psychological illness on clients/patients.
- Conflict resolution skills - ability to motivate, negotiate and resolve conflict situations
- Experience or strong theoretical knowledge of rural healthcare that may affect a patient’s determinants of health
- Strong knowledge of NSHA services structures, community resources and navigating systems is essential
- Advanced knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. Protection of Persons in Care Act, Personal Directives Act, Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act, Personal Health Informati