Social Worker

4 days ago

Dartmouth, Canada Lifemark Health Group Full time

**Licensed Social Worker - Lifemark Health Group**

Location: Dartmouth, NS

Type: Permanent Full-time and Independent Contractor Opportunities Available

Are you a passionate Social Worker looking to belong to a collaborative healthcare community to implement our bold vision to optimize the benefit of integrated health services, including stepped-care mental health, to diverse audiences, including military Veterans in need of psycho-social intervention? If so, join Lifemark Health Group and grow with us, as we build and expand provincial teams in support of our national mental health strategy.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide clients, primarily military veterans, with goal-focused psychotherapy to address mental health and psychosocial problems that are barriers to better health and family/community engagement.
- Provide veteran clients with social work assessments and social work interventions in the client’s social milieu in order to improve social and community functioning.
- Utilize a primarily cognitive-behavioral approach to intervention based on an overall client-centered philosophy.
- Provide group psychoeducational services.
- Participate in interdisciplinary team conferences to discuss clients’ treatment plan and goals, progress, and any barriers to functional goals.
- Deliver quality reporting and effective communication with all stakeholders.

**Key Qualifications**:

- Masters Degree in Social Work
- Registration with a provincial College of Social Workers as an autonomous practitioner in good standing
- 2 years + of experience (preferred) in case conceptualization and psychotherapy/social work intervention for a range of mental health symptoms and psycho-social barriers with a variety of adult clients.
- Experience working as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team.
- Experience writing clear and concise assessment, progress and discharge reports.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, autonomy, and integrity.

While our company is focused on helping our clients, as a group we are equally focused on the health and wellness of our staff. We live our values in everything thing we do - striving for simplicity, doing the right thing, being inclusive and welcoming, and having fun

Full-time employees are entitled to:

- Annual continuing education allowance with a wide variety of internal training opportunities
- Career development pathways, including clinical leadership
- Flexible benefits plan

You belong here if you value practicing within an interdisciplinary team environment, based on a bio-psycho-social approach to intervention, which may include psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, psychotherapists/counsellors, and physical rehabilitation specialists. Together, Lifemark Health Group has become Canada’s largest health care and rehabilitation companies, which is embarking on a new chapter, along with its partners, as the designated provider of medical and psycho-social rehabilitation services for military veterans across Canada.

**Inclusion**

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. Improving inclusion and equity is a collective responsibility. Lifemark promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including but not limited to those self-identifying as a member of the employment equity groups: Indigenous peoples, Newcomers to Canada, Women, and Visible minorities.

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