Social Worker II

As an integral member of both the Awasisak Indigenous Health team and the Stollery Social Work team, the incumbent will collaborate within a multidisciplinary patient care team at the Royal Alexandra Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to provide excellent, family centered social work services. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring the psychosocial health needs of Indigenous patients and their families are met through appropriate case management, advocacy, and discharge planning activities as specified. The social worker will also act as an essential point of contact between families and health care providers in hospital and in community. Primary social work services will include psychosocial assessments, resource-based interventions, risk screening, supportive counselling, case management and coordination and transition planning. This position will include work to build bridges within the Stollery, Indigenous First Nations communities, Indigenous government and community organizations, Metis community health centers and agencies, and other social and health services within Central and Northern Alberta and/or Edmonton Zone. The position may include the facilitation of in-services Indigenous training session for staff, families and the community. The incumbent must be able to practice independently with a high degree of critical thinking, problem solving and ethical judgement, while also working effectively within their social work and interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient health outcomes.

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: Social Work Awasisak Indigenous Health

Primary Location: Royal Alexandra Hospital

Location Details: As Per Location

Multi-Site: Multisite