Social Worker

Women's College Hospital (WCH) is an academic, ambulatory care hospital in Ontario with a focus on health for women, health equity and health system solutions. If you're ready to be part of a team that is revolutionizing the future of healthcare, then you will want to join an institution where the possibilities for innovation, new discovery and system thinking are limitless. Women's College Hospital is committed to equity, quality and patient safety as key professional values and essential components of daily practice.
Healthcare Revolutionized 2030 is our roadmap to the future. Our strategy is built on the pledge that the founders of our hospital made 140 years ago and reaffirms our commitment to providing equitable, accessible, best-in-class healthcare for everyone - meeting people where they are on their healthcare journey and partnering with them to reach their goals of living their healthiest lives possible. The stage has been set for Women’s to accelerate our priorities and capture the momentum to catapult our system forward to revolutionize healthcare for everyone.
Applicants must reside and be legally eligible to work in Ontario.
**Type**: Replacement
Temporary Full Time
An exciting Temporary Full-Time opportunity as a Social Worker exists in the Family Practice Health Team reporting to the reporting to the Executive Director Family Practice Health Centre.
As a key member of Women’s College Academic Family Health Team (WC FHT), and an integral part of an interdisciplinary health care team, you will deliver social worker care in accordance with policies and professional practice standards. You will perform routine social worker duties, and ensure that the social needs of our patients are met. Your primary roles are to work in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to perform patient, family and couples psychosocial assessments, short-term counseling, education, and advocacy. Performing these roles well will reduce unnecessary office visits and visits to after-care clinics or emergency rooms. You will deliver services to a variety of patient populations.
**Summary of Duties, but not limited to**:

- Provide patients and families with emotional support, coping strategies and linkage to community resources and support, including but not limited to financial assessment, social and financial assistance, options for disability support, respite care, and child care.
- Provide support, short-term and longitudinal psychosocial therapy and counseling through stages of women’s treatment journey, from diagnosis to aftercare and survivorship.
- Conduct assessments and participate in the development of treatment plans with other team members.
- Coordinate referrals and facilitate access to other health care providers and organizations, while assisting patients and their families with the development of social and community support systems.
- Develop, implement and balance individual, group, same-day counselling and patient and family education sessions.
- Work collaboratively with all members of the health care team internal and external to the organization while ensuring continuity of care as patients transition across the continuum through appropriate discharge planning, patient education, and coordination of services to community support and resources.
- Establishes a caring and therapeutic relationship with patients; demonstrates trust, respect, honesty and provides counseling including crisis interventions as required
- Advocates for patients by mobilizing resources and identifying and addressing gaps in service to meet supportive care needs of patients
- In collaboration with Professional Practice, Research, and Education departments initiates and participates in clinical research and teaching, and integrates research into practice to ensure best practice standards are maintained.
- Identify and lead quality improvement initiatives that will advance the work of the Centre and WCH
- Assist patients and families in overcoming barriers within the health care system to ensure timely delivery of services.

As a role model and champion you will work to identify and integrate safe, best practices into daily activities to foster the delivery of safe and exemplary care.
The responsibilities described above are representative and are not to be construed as all-inclusive.
**Qualifications/Skills**:

- Registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers is required
- Master’s degree in Social Work or Counselling is required
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a hospital, ambulatory setting is required
- Ability to form positive therapeutic alliance and to work independently and within a multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of adult education strategies, teaching and learning principles, and advanced therapeutic communication techniques
- Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders including community organization