Your Opportunity:
The University of Alberta Hospital is one of Canada’s leading clinical, research, and teaching hospitals, and offers a wide range of diagnostic and treatment services, including specialized ambulatory clinics. This Social Worker II position is part of the centralized Rehabilitation and Allied Health Program, responsible for patients at the Kaye Edmonton Clinics. The candidate will be a highly motivated, confident, and dependable individual who collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, patients and their families in a busy environment ensuring trauma-informed care. The SWII will hold working knowledge of health care systems, SDoH, and community resources. They will support individuals with new diagnoses and/or living with chronic diseases through psychosocial assessments; specialized resource interventions; education; crisis intervention; adjustment counselling; advocacy; liaising with external agencies; and consultation with other care providers. 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: Edmonton Clinic
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

Please refer the Job description for details