Health Care Social Worker (Bachelors) - Adolescent Outreach Services - Mental Health & Addictions
Req ID: 194370
Location: Northern Zone, Aberdeen Hospital
Department: MHA NZ Community Outreach CRH
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
CUPE Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 9-Jan-25
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.
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About the Opportunity
The Social Worker is responsible for clinical assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of prevention and early intervention programming for adolescents at-risk for or who have mild substance use and/or mental health problems. As part of a team, the Social Worker must be knowledgeable and utilize principles from harm reduction, population health, community development, health promotion and prevention, and early intervention. The Social Worker provides a wide range of services in schools and communities, including screening, assessment, supportive counseling, referral, case navigation/management, early/ brief intervention, outreach, and group programming.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work
- Registered with the Nova Scotia College of Social Work (NSCSW)
- Two years' (post-BSW) related clinical experience (preferably working with children and adolescents with mental health, substance use, or concurrent disorders in a community based setting providing case management and other supportive interventions)
- Demonstrated knowledge of community resources/ programs and community development methods
- A high degree of proficiency in screening and risk assessment skills, including suicide risk assessment
- An ability to build and maintain collaborative working relationships within health care and the community at large
- A sound working knowledge of harm reduction strategies and stages of change theory
- Knowledge and experience with brief intervention strategies, solution focused approaches, motivational interviewing skills and client engagement strategies
- Knowledge and experience with trauma informed care approach
- Knowledge of social determinants of health/social context and its importance to decision formulation
- Demonstrated knowledge of cultural sensitivity and cultural competency
- Demonstrated knowledge of recovery oriented practice & patient and family centered care
- The incumbent will need to have previous experience working with a significant amount of autonomy ensuring the plan of care is being fully articulated and work collaboratively with the care teams when adjustments are needed
- Experienced in offering supportive brief intervention strategies focuses on harm reduction and recovery
- A working knowledge of the DSM and experience in utilizing screening and triaging tools
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
- Permanent, full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
Compensation and Benefits
$35.86 - $46.87 Hourly
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.