Senior Practice Consultant - Social Work
Your Opportunity:
You are an accomplished and principled leader with a strong sense of professional responsibility and a deep commitment to those you serve. You bring maturity, sound judgment, and a high level of accountability to your work. You are dedicated to excellence, to advancing professional practice, and to the meaningful contributions Social Work and Allied Health make in improving outcomes across communities. Your leadership is guided by high standards, best practices, and a commitment to delivering quality care with integrity. If you excel in roles that require purposeful leadership, the ability to build productive relationships, and the capacity to strengthen practice across a complex system, this opportunity may align well with your experience and aspirations. You will join a team committed to collaboration, professionalism, and advancing Social Work and Allied Health practice across Alberta. In this role, your leadership will help propel organizational priorities, elevate practice across the system, and reinforce a shared commitment to quality, ethical service, and professional excellence.
Description:
The Senior Practice Consultant, Social Work, provides advanced leadership to strengthen consistent, evidence informed Social Work practice across Alberta. The role leads the development, implementation, and evaluation of provincial standards, guidelines, education, and care pathways, and offers expert consultation on complex clinical and ethical matters requiring mature judgment, strong accountability, and a sustained commitment to ethical decision making. A key responsibility is leading clinical and professional practice changes across all healthcare organizations. The Consultant leads with integrity, manages risks, and adapts priorities and processes to support effective, sustainable change. The role advances knowledge creation and translation by applying critical thinking, systems awareness, and analytical expertise to transform complex policy and service information into clear, actionable guidance. The Consultant upholds high standards, ensuring reliability, consistency, and alignment with best practice expectations across diverse care settings. Relationship centred leadership is essential. The Senior Practice Consultant builds strong partnerships modelling professionalism, respectful communication, conflict resolution, and collaborative problem solving. These relationships strengthen Social Work identity, reinforce ethical and competent practice, and support system level alignment. As a strategic leader, the Consultant identifies emerging challenges and opportunities, contributes to strategic and operational planning, and advances provincial Allied Health Professions priorities. The successful candidate is a dependable, self-directed professional with well-developed leadership capabilities, and a demonstrated commitment to delivering high quality outcomes for Albertans.
- Transition Company: Health Shared Services
- Classification: Senior Practice Consultant
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Allied Health Professions
- Primary Location: Northwest Centre 1
- Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- FTE: 0.50
- Posting End Date: 30-MAR-2026
- Date Available: 09-APR-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 5
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $37.82
- Maximum Salary: $64.86
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Master of Social Work Degree and appropriate licenses and designation. A minimum of 10 years in healthcare practice consultation, leadership or professional development role in an organization of significant size, complexity and diversity. Experience and coursework in change management, project leadership, and clinical supervision.
Additional Required Qualifications:
As Required.
Preferred Qualifications:
As Required.
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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