Social Worker II
Your Opportunity:
Assisted Living Alberta is committed to Enhancing Care for All Albertans by delivering high-quality, person-centered continuing care services. Our mandate is to support individuals in maintaining independence, dignity, and quality of life through integrated care solutions that meet their unique needs across home, facility, and hospital settings. This job opportunity is for a temporary full-time Social Worker II in the Vegreville/Lamont area. This provides professional social work services in clients’ homes, continuing care facilities, and hospital settings. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will: Conduct psychosocial assessments, identify unmet needs and develop care plans, provide social navigation and resource-based interventions, collaborate with clients, families, and decision-makers to achieve client goals.
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.
- Transition Company: Assisted Living Alberta
- Classification: Social Worker II
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Central Zone Social Work
- Primary Location: Vegreville HC/Pub/Rehab/MenHlt
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 12-JUN-2026
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 22-JUN-2026
- Temporary End Date: 28-DEC-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 4
- Shifts per cycle: 20
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $42.14
- Maximum Salary: $56.02
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Completion of bachelor's degree in Social Work. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).
Additional Required Qualifications:Minimum of one (1) year of recent experience (within the past three years) in an acute-care hospital setting within an urban environment. Relevant Social Work experience in fast-paced, crisis-response, or high-demand service settings will also be considered. Demonstrated skills in crisis intervention, psychosocial assessment, case management, and complex discharge and transition planning. Proven ability to prioritize, take initiative, and make sound clinical decisions in a rapidly changing environment. Strong verbal and written communication skills, including proficiency in clinical documentation. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team. Experience working with individuals facing houselessness, poverty, substance use, mental health challenges, and complex social circumstances. Commitment to culturally safe and trauma-informed practice, with experience applying harm reduction approaches when supporting individuals with intersecting psychosocial and health-related needs.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience working as a Social Worker in an Emergency Department within an urban setting. Knowledge of community resources, referral pathways, and interagency collaboration.
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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We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care all across Alberta.
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.
