Your Opportunity:
AHS is dedicated to Enhancing Care in the Community, helping people be healthy, well and independent in their homes and communities. For more information https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/cc/Page15339.aspx. Edmonton Zone Continuing Care provides services through five main program areas: Home Living, Supportive Living, Facility Living, Transition Services and Palliative Care. We are looking for a Social Worker II to join our Home Living team to provide professional support services in the homes of clients of all ages and stages of life. Working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, the Social Worker II is involved in the case management of clients, including ongoing assessment, determination of unmet need, and care planning in consultation with clients to achieve client goals utilizing appropriate internal and external resources. Social Worker II work within a Competency Framework that includes personal and professional accountability, systems thinking, creative thinking, communicating and building relationships. In addition, the Social Worker is responsible for the provision of social work services to clients and families including psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, education, advocacy, resource finding, consultation, and making appropriate referrals to members of the multidisciplinary team. This position will be based out of the Fort Saskatchewan Home Care office but will provide support to home care’s Suburban/Rural East team, which will include travel to the other home care network offices, 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.

• Classification: Social Worker II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Home Living
• Primary Location: Fort Saskatchewan Health Ctr
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

Please refer the Job description for details