Health Care Social Worker

**Req ID**:202731**
**Location**:Western** Zone,**Eastern Kings Memorial Community Health Centre**
**Department**:OPWZ Social Work Palliaitive Care
- VRH**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent**Hourly FT** (**100%**) x**1**
**CUPE** **Healthcare** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:22-May-25**

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 Service Manager of Palliative Care, or designate, the incumbent is a member of the Palliative Care Team and participates in the planning, development, and provision of Social Work services to ensure psycho-social care is core to the care of individuals living with or dying from a life-limiting illness and their family members. The Social Worker works to full scope of practice as an independent practitioner within the team. This includes supporting the development and integration of palliative care services within health care and the community and providing collaborative, client centered care across the continuum, supporting the psychosocial and emotional well-being of individuals (includes patients, families, consultation team, groups, populations, and communities). This position includes considerable collaboration within the team and with community partners.

The Social Worker ensures that the principles and practices that guide NSH such as the mission, vision, values, expected behaviors, and the leadership philosophy along with organizational health, population health, ethics, safety, quality, partnerships and interprofessional collaboration are integrated within the services one provides and through the messages one delivers.

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

- Masters of Social Work required
- Certificate of Registration and Membership in the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers and Canadian Association of Social Workers.
- Graduate of a recognized Palliative Care course, or willing to enroll in a recognized program within one year of hire and, successful completion of non-violent crisis intervention training.
- Minimum five years clinical experience
- Palliative Care or Oncology experience preferred
- Strong counselling and communication skills
- Capacity to achieve a high degree of autonomous practice
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team context
- Knowledge of issues related to family violence, sexual abuse, addictions, grief and loss, end of life, disability, crisis intervention, caregiving and continuum of care and intervention skills that come from knowledge of theoretical frameworks/approaches to practice.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating educational programs and family and team conferences.
- Competency in basic computer skills (Microsoft Suite, E-mail, Internet, Excel, Meditech, SEAscape).
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred.
- Physical capabilities to perform the duties of the position such as dealing with stressful situations, traveling between sites within the geographical area of the Annapolis Valley and to meetings in other localities as required.

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Permanent Full-Time / 75 hours bi-weekly
- Shifts may include evenings, weekends, holidays

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$40.17 - $54.14 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.