Your Opportunity:
The Acute Care Addiction Recovery Program (ACARP – formerly known as ARCH) team is a consult service located at the Peter Lougheed Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, and Rockyview General Hospital, specializing in addiction medicine. This casual position is for PLC, FMC, and RGH. The ACARP team is multi-disciplinary and comprised of medical and allied health, health care providers. The ACARP team provides wrap around services to patient(s) who present with active substance use concerns. Specializing in supporting the primary care team to offer a full spectrum of services through a recovery orientated model of care, inclusive of harm reduction, low-threshold services, trauma informed care, and offering interventions to improve social determinants of health. ACARP is a grant-based program helping patients start or progress on their recovery journeys through timely identification of those in need of supports, and by offering immediate access to a recovery-oriented system of care (ROSC). Reporting to the manager of ACARP, the SWII will work with patients who have been consulted to ACARP, in collaboration with the wider team to provide social stabilization supports. Will work to full scope as outlined in the provincial job description and the role will primarily consist of performing assessments/screening, case conceptualization, and completing a broad range of resource-based interventions to maximize social determinants of health, as well as motivation interviewing. The role supports with connecting patients to community resources via warm handoffs. The role will also provide education, mentorship and supervision support and participate in quality improvement initiatives, as required.
Description:

As a Social Worker II, you will be a member of an inter-disciplinary team and provides a range of social work services to patients and their families. Your services may include: psychosocial assessment, resource-based interventions, individual, group and family treatment, risk screening, counselling, case management and coordination, transition or discharge planning, and prevention, promotion and public awareness activities.

• Acute Care Alberta: N
• Primary Care Alberta: N
• Recovery Alberta: Y
• Classification: Social Worker II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Acute Care Addiction Recovery Program
• Primary Location: Peter Lougheed Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

Please refer the Job description for details