Social Worker MSW
Company : IWK Health
Req ID: 180262
Department/Program: Suspected Trauma Abuse Response Team, Children's Surgical & Critical Care
Location: Halifax
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly PT (50% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Start Date: ASAP
Union Status: NSGEU Hlthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit
Compensation: $37.3118 - $50.7666 /hour
Closing Date: May 27, 2024 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)
IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.
Promoting an anti-racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities across Nova Scotia, and more than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who also have a long, deep, and complex history dating back over 400 years. We have the highest percentage of people with disabilities in the country. Nova Scotia has the highest proportions of transgender and non-binary people than any other province or territory in the country. We are active in our work to eliminate discrimination, but have more work to do to build that trust, acknowledge our biases and reduce the barriers our diverse communities face. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Manager, Emergency Care and START, Children’s Health Program, the social worker practices as a member of an interprofessional team to provide social work services and family centered care to children, youth and their families engaged with the Suspected Trauma and Abuse Response Team (START). The primary role of the social worker will be to provide trauma focused therapy to children and youth, ages 4-19 years. The social worker will provide assessment, therapeutic interventions, and consultations with children /adolescents with a primary concern of trauma related to childhood maltreatment. The social worker partners with birth, kinship, adoptive, and foster families to offer trauma informed parenting practices to build and enhance safety. The social worker will have knowledge and skills in complex trauma focused individual, family, and group therapy, having current knowledge of issues pertaining to family dynamics, child maltreatment, mental health, addictions, psychosocial formulation, intimate partner violence and criminal justice. The successful applicant will have experience in trauma responsive, culturally safe care. The social worker will collaborate with Mental Health and Addictions Teams to provide shared care services to children, youth, and families. The Social Worker will be responsible to liaise and consult with a range of community, health, and government services with an emphasis on building collaborative partnerships, facilitating resource acquisition and advocating for appropriate resources to meet the client’s needs. This position involves the preparation of comprehensive treatment plans, goals and outcomes for the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Family Division. The Social Worker will have responsibilities in supervising clinical MSW student placements, teaching, program development, program evaluation, and research as needed. The social worker will be a member of the START Steering Committee and working groups as required.
Hours of Work
Monday to Wednesday first week and Thursday Fridays second week (8:30 am – 4:30 pm), some variations in working times will be required as needed.
Your Qualifications
• Masters Degree in Social Work required.
• Current license, or eligible for licensure, with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers (NSCSW) required.
• Minimum of two (2) years clinical experience as a Masters prepared Social Worker required.
• Knowledge of child maltreatment, mental health & addictions, intimate partner violence, principles of human development, human sexuality, gender development, attachment, family development and processes (family, relational, systemic dynamics)
• Advanced Psychotherapy skills in addressing trauma (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) and/or other evidence informed trauma therapies (EMDR, Somatic), therapeutic rapport, dynamic risk assessment, therapeutic play),
• Knowledge of the Child and Family Services Act required.
• Working knowledge of the DSM-5 considered an asset.
• Experience in individual, family and group therapy preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of the social, structural, emotional, psychological, and cultural determinants/factors that affect well-being.
• Demonstrated ability to use an anti-oppressive framework in practice.
• Demonstrated ability to reach a joint formulation with the client and family.
• Demonstrated excellent time management, critical thinking, organization, decision making, and problem-solving skills required.
• Demonstrated exceptional interpersonal, presentation and communication (verbal and written) skills required.
• Demonstrated comfort and skill in working collaboratively with internal and external partnerships required.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously as well as part of an interprofessional team required.
• Experience in Meditech, MS Outlook, and MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) preferred.
• Competencies in other languages an asset; French preferred.
Thank you for your interest in working with the IWK Health Centre. It is the responsibility of IWK employees to self-identify as internal applicants at the point of application. Successful applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), proof of applicable education and NS registration to Human Resources as a condition of employment.
Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.
Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.
This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. 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.
An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials.
If you are an employee of IWK Health, please apply through the internal careers page to ensure you are flagged as an internal applicant.
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