Job Description

Your Opportunity:

The Rockyview General Hospital (RGH) is a metropolitan hospital with over 600 inpatient beds. It is also the main site for urology and ophthalmology specialties. RGH is located next to the scenic Glenmore Reservoir in Southwest Calgary. RGH Social Work (within the Allied Health Portfolio) works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary teams in the Emergency Department, ICU/CCU, Medical/Surgical Units, Transition Units, and Maternal/Child Units. This position offers an opportunity work as part of a dynamic team where operational needs require flexibility to work across all portfolios. As a SW II, you will be a member of an interdisciplinary team and provide a range of social work services to patients and their families. Your services may include: psychosocial assessment, resource-based interventions, individual and family treatment, risk screening, counselling, case management and coordination, and transition or discharge planning. You will have a proven ability to work effectively within a patient-centered and interdisciplinary team environment. Your assessment and critical thinking skills will be necessary to guide your work with complex family situations while also being able to support families through a myriad of circumstances. You must demonstrate an ability to provide clinical service within a continually changing health care environment. Your proven time management skills and demonstrated initiative will be an asset to this position. A day in the life of a SW II in this position will require the candidate to be capable of managing an unpredictable, ever changing case load and if you enjoy a fast paced environment, this is the opportunity you are looking for. The successful candidate will be a collegial teammate who actively contributes to a positive and supportive team culture, and who also understands PFCC, respecting the patient as the expert.

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: Allied Health
• Primary Location: Rockyview General Hospital
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 05-JUN-2023
• Temporary Employee Class: Temporary Full Time
• Date Available: 19-JUN-2023
• Temporary End Date: 17-NOV-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $38.56
• Maximum Salary: $51.27
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Completion of bachelor\'s degree in Social Work. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW). Additional Required Qualifications:

Experience in Social Work, in adult Acute Care, within the last 4 years (med/surg/subacute/outpatient units). Preferred Qualifications:

One year + experience in adult Acute Care. Experience with community resources and referral. Experience with discharge planning. Experience with geriatrics and geriatric focused social work (sub-acute/transition units). Experience with a mat/child portfolio. Experience with ICU, CCU, Emergency Department.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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