Social Worker (Acute Care) - Burnaby Hospital

Job summary

The Social Worker provides psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, and supportive counselling to patients and families within an interdisciplinary acute care setting. They also facilitate access to community resources and participate in the development of comprehensive care plans.

Job details

The Social Worker provides psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, and supportive counselling to patients and families within an interdisciplinary acute care setting. They also facilitate access to community resources and participate in the development of comprehensive care plans. Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Social Work from an approved school and possess at least three years of recent, related clinical experience. Current full registration with the BC College of Social Workers is mandatory.

What you’ll do

The Social Worker provides psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, and supportive counselling to patients and families within an interdisciplinary acute care setting. They also facilitate access to community resources and participate in the development of comprehensive care plans.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Social Work from an approved school and possess at least three years of recent, related clinical experience. Current full registration with the BC College of Social Workers is mandatory.

Benefits

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid benefits
• Generous vacation time
• Benefit portability
• Immediate pension enrollment
• Maternity top-up
• TransLink pass subsidy
• Employee discounts

Listed skills

• crisis intervention · Preferred
• Problem solving · Preferred
• Quality Improvement · Preferred
• interdisciplinary collaboration · Preferred
• community resource coordination · Preferred
• case management · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Psychosocial assessment
• Crisis intervention
• Supportive counselling
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Case management
• Systems theory
• Treatment planning
• Bereavement counselling
• Patient advocacy
• Community resource coordination
• Report writing
• Quality improvement
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Clinical documentation

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Social Services

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