Social Worker, Oncology

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $42.27 - $52.81 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby.

The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

- Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces
- New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine, and mental health patients
- New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces
- New acute care tower with 160 beds
- New medical imaging department
- New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and plastics specialties.

We are currently looking to fill a **Casual** opportunity for a **Social Worker** to join the **Oncology Clinic Unit** at **Burnaby Hospital** located in **Burnaby, B.C.**

**Experience the exceptional benefits of working with us including**:

- Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
- Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
- Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
- Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
- Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
- TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes
- Additional employee discounts and perks available
- **_Eligibility based on employment status_**

Detailed Overview:
Reporting to the Manager, Clinical Services, provides assessment and treatment services for cancer patients. Liaises with home health units, community agencies, and caregiver support groups. Participates in educational inservices, planning, program development, and policy recommendations. Provides consultation support and the social work perspective to the interdisciplinary team in the development of services within the assigned area of responsibility.

**Responsibilities**:

- Conducts social and psychosocial assessments of clients and families and interprets the information using a variety of modalities in accordance with professional standards and clinical practice.
- Provides counselling to cancer patients and their families during the initial crisis of diagnosis, recurrent treatment, and remission. Liaises with the Palliative Care Team as needed.
- Provides therapeutic services such as relaxation/meditation services to cancer patients and their families.
- Follows up and provides ongoing monitoring of complex psychosocial situations. Evaluates clients'' response to interventions.
- Provides information regarding clients' psychosocial situation and participates in developing a comprehensive plan of care with/for the client, as a member of the interdisciplinary team. Collaborates and consults with other community professionals.
- Participates in team meetings and case conferences relative to the client care needs.
- Acts as a resource for clients and their families by providing information regarding community resources and access to these resources, facilitating referrals where appropriate, and facilitating the development of community resources by identifying services needed to support the health of families.
- Promotes client/family autonomy by ensuring their participation in planning and decision making and the development of problem solving abilities.
- Participates in quality improvement activities by providing input into the development, implementation, and evaluation of program goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
- Assists in the development and provision of relevant educational programs for Fraser Health staff, clients, their families, and community agencies on psychosocial issues related to illness, disability, grieving, and loss.
- Prepares statistics in accordance with the workload measurement system for submission to designated personnel. Maintains written clinical records.
- Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications**:Education and Experience**

Master's degree in Social Work from an approved School of Social Work, plus two (2) years' recent related clinical experience. Current full registration with the BC College of Social Workers