Social Worker

**What We Offer**:
Health benefits

**Posting Date**:FridayJanuary 10, 2025

**Closing Date**: When filled.

**Position Title**:Social Worker

**Organization**:Alzheimer Society Southwest Partners

Do you have a passion for working with older adults, including people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and their care partners? We are seeking a registered social worker to join our compassionate and supportive team. We are looking for someone who appreciates diversity and is motivated to advocate for and inspire change in our communities with a commitment to the OCSWSSW Code of Ethics being evident in all they do.

**What We Offer**:

- Health benefits
- Pension plan
- Paid sick time
- Birthday off paid
- Generous vacation time
- Flexible work models
- Paid personal days
- Positive workplace culture
- Ongoing professional development
- Formal supervision and peer supervision opportunities

**About This Position**:
**Immediate Supervisor**:Manager of Clinical Services

**Direct Reports**:None

**Job Status**: Full-time, Permanent, 35 hours per week, occasional evening and weekend work required.

**Location**: Home site at one of our offices in Middlesex (London), Elgin (St. Thomas) & Oxford (Woodstock) and some remote work from home.

**Summary**:
Under the direction of the Manager of Clinical Services, the incumbent will work with persons living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias (ADOD), including Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), or other memory complaints. The Registered Social Worker will work with the individual, their care partners, and community resource agencies to ensure access to information, support, and education that assists them on their journey with the disease. The goal is to provide needed support, build effective and efficient utilization of community resources, promote links with primary care and community resource agencies; reduce care partner crisis situations and thereby reduce care partner burden.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Receive and respond to client referrals in a timely manner,
- Provide psychosocial assessments, develop care plans with clients living with dementia and their care partner network,
- Initiate intervention quickly in urgent situations
- Provide dementia related supportive counselling to clients as needed,
- Provide regular follow up with current clients as established in agency policy,
- Comply with reporting requirements of the Alzheimer Society Southwest Partners and those of the relevant professional body (OCSWSSW),
- Ensure clients are aware of existing community resources, and make appropriate referrals with client consent when needed,
- Refer to appropriate community resources as required,
- Facilitate support and education groups (virtually and in person) as assigned,
- Participate in Memory Clinic work as assigned,
- Engage in continuing education according to OCSWSSW Continuing Competence Program (CCP) and build capacity for excellence in dementia care.

**Evaluations and Other Responsibilities**:

- Annual performance review with Manager of Clinical Services,
- Collect, maintain and report required quantitative and qualitative data to support monitoring, evaluation, and reporting,
- Work with programs team to continually evaluate services by soliciting ongoing feedback from clients as well as completing written questionnaires as appropriate,
- Always represent the Alzheimer Society Southwest Partners in a professional manner, treating all internal and external clients with respect and dignity and always act in the best interest of the Society,
- As an employee of a non-profit organization, you are expected to participate in fund development activities as required,
- Other related duties as requested by the supervisor or Director of Programs and Services or CEO.

**Requirements / Experience and Qualifications**:

- Minimum Bachelor of Social Work (BSW),
- Registered (or eligibility for registration) with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW),
- 3 years of client service experience in the health and/or social service sectors,
- Strong assessment and case management skills required,
- Experience facilitating education and/or support groups,
- Experience conducting meetings and/or groups on a virtual platform (Zoom and Teams),
- Refer to and collaborate with other departments (ie. Therapeutic Recreation, Public Education, Fund Development, Volunteers, etc.)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills,
- Ability and knowledge to work within a computerized environment,
- Valid driver’s license and access to own vehicle,
- A Vulnerable Sector Police Record Check is required.

**Preferred**:

- Master of Social Work (MSW) degree,
- Experience working with seniors,
- Experience working with persons living with dementia and their care partners,
- Minimum 5 years of experience providing Social Work service to people living with dementia and/or caregivers
- Ability to converse in a language other