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Job description: Req ID: 170160
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Central Zone, Centennial Building – QEII
Department: OPCZ Med/Surg/Cancer Care VG
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: NSGEU Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 12-Dec-23

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.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there’s a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you’ll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Opportunity

The Health Care Social Worker reports to the Program Manager and provides a diverse range of interventions to clients and their families, enabling them to achieve their optimal level of functioning and health. These interventions include: psychosocial assessments, adjustment therapy, supportive therapy, crisis counselling, resource counselling, and discharge planning and case management.

Health Care Social Workers are actively involved in advocacy, education, program planning, consultation and collaboration on behalf of individuals/groups within the institution and community. The role is multifaceted and dynamic, requiring each Social Worker to work autonomously as well as collaboratively within interdisciplinary teams. The Health Care Social Worker is a licensed professional who practices in accordance with a set of National/Provincial Standards and Code of Ethics and Department Procedures, Policies and Standards. The Health Care Social Worker is responsible for supervising undergraduate and graduate students in work placements. The Health Care Social Worker provides consultation based upon an advanced level of education (MSW) which includes an integrated knowledge of the social, structural, emotional, psychological and cultural factors that affect well-being. The Job Fact Sheet describes a range of practice. It incorporates entry level practitioners to those with advanced levels of practice. This range is associated with the education level, years of experience and professional development of workers within the department.

The Social Worker may be required to provide services throughout the Rehabilitation and Supportive Care Services portfolio.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work from a recognized university
• Registered or eligible for registration with the NSCSW
• Two (2) years of clinical experience as a clinical Social Worker preferred
• BCLS
• Strong counselling and communication skills
• Capacity to achieve a high degree of autonomous practice
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team context
• Knowledge of issues related to family violence, sexual abuse, addictions, grief and loss, end of life, disability, crisis intervention, caregiving and continuum of care and intervention skills that come from knowledge of theoretical frameworks/approaches to practice
• 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.

Please note: consideration may be given to those with a Masters of Social Work education and less than two year experience in a developmental capacity within a different pay scale.

Hours

• Long assignment, Full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
• Approximately a 15-month assignment

Compensation and Incentives

Healthcare Social Worker (Masters) – $37.13 – $48.81 Hourly

Developmental Social Worker (Masters) (HTH130) – $33.10 – $35.84 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.

​Preferred candidates must be able to demonstrate proof of primary series of COVID -19 vaccine at time of hire.

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.

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Expected salary: $37.13 – 48.81 per hour

Location: Halifax, NS

Job date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 06:41:11 GMT

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Job description: services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission… within interdisciplinary teams. The Health Care Social Worker is a licensed professional who practices in accordance with a set of National…

Expected salary: $37.13 – 48.81 per hour

Location: Halifax, NS

Job date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:37:28 GMT

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Job description: services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission… within interdisciplinary teams. The Health Care Social Worker is a licensed professional who practices in accordance with a set of National…

Expected salary: $37.13 – 48.81 per hour

Location: Halifax, NS

Job date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:43:08 GMT

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Job description: services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission… within interdisciplinary teams. The Health Care Social Worker is a licensed professional who practices in accordance with a set of National…

Expected salary: $37.13 – 48.81 per hour

Location: Halifax, NS

Job date: Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:34:58 GMT

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