Your Opportunity:
The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) offers specialized diagnostic and treatment services to adult patients, as well as specialty ambulatory clinics located across the hospital campus. The UAH Social Work (SW) Team is part of the centralized Rehabilitation and Allied Health Program, providing program-based care. This SW II position supports adults’ patients in the Emergency Department and may be required to work in other care settings. The candidate will be a highly motivated, confident, and dependable individual who collaborates with team members, patients and their families in a fast-paced environment ensuring trauma-informed, equitable care. The candidate will hold working knowledge of health care systems, SDoH, and community resources to support psychosocial interventions such as crisis intervention, resource navigation, advocacy, and referring to internal/external agencies. As a Social Worker II you are part of a team driven to provide quality patient-centered care though best practices and evidence informed approaches and in alignment with AHS Values.
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.

• Classification: Social Worker II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Rehabilitation & Allied Health
• Primary Location: U of A Hospital
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

Please refer the Job description for details