Social Worker II
Your Opportunity:
Step Up Step Down (SUSD) provides intensive live-in and outpatient treatment in conjunction with community support for youth and their families so that the youth are able to re-integrate into their home, school and community. SUSD collaborates internally and externally to provide consistent, comprehensive, and individualized clinical services to youth across both the live-in and community settings. SUSD increases the capacity of youth (and their caregivers) to manage the youth’s addiction and/ or complex mental health needs through a collaborative and enhanced approach. This is a casual position to support increased workload at SUSD and Unit 39 at Red Deer Regional Hospital. The occasional evening may be necessary and can be discussed. This position has transitioned to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Recovery Alberta.
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.
- Recovery Alberta: Y
- Classification: Social Worker II
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Step Up Step Down
- Primary Location: Sheldon Kennedy Centre of Excellence
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.00
- Posting End Date: 21-JAN-2025
- Employee Class: Casual/Relief
- Date Available: 31-JAN-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: Varies
- Shifts per cycle: Varies
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: Other
- Minimum Salary: $38.56
- Maximum Salary: $51.27
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Completion of bachelor's degree in Social Work. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).
Additional Required Qualifications:3 years’ experience working with youth at risk populations. Knowledge of resources in Central Alberta to support youth. Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work with a wide range of professionals, and the ability to engage easily with a wide range of clients. Must have restricted activity psychosocial intervention.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience working in an inpatient context is considered an asset.
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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Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
