Specialized Care Social Worker

Job title:

Specialised Care Social Employee

Firm

College of Waterloo

Job description

Overview

The Specialised Care Social employee (SCSW)) is accountable to the Affiliate Director, Well being Companies. This place affords case administration companies to college students by coordinating prevention, intervention, and assist efforts throughout campus and neighborhood programs to help at-risk and excessive wants college students, college students dealing with crises, life traumas, and different boundaries that impede success. The SCSW facilitates at-risk psychological well being and/or medical wants by way of referrals and connections with follow-up companies. The function facilitates pupil’s connection to a number of helps, offering data and assist coordinating transitions to neighborhood psychological well being sources, specialised therapy packages, disaster intervention, hospitalizations, and discharge planning. The place collaborates primarily with the assorted well being care professionals inside Campus Wellness whereas performing as a liaison with different pupil and tutorial companies.

Obligations

Assists within the coordination and observe up of companies for high-risk college students

• Helping college students in acquiring bodily and psychological well being care helps each on- and off-campus
• Helping Campus Wellness well being professionals in coordinating and facilitating assist and follow-up for college students’ well being and social service wants together with accessing acceptable funding assist
• Speaking/collaborating with neighborhood therapy amenities (e.g., hospitals, outpatient program, scientific settings, and so forth.) the place a pupil is receiving care to facilitate the scholar’s return to campus together with facilitating acceptable follow-up. Place screens continuity of care, bridging care and companies between college and neighborhood suppliers
• Offering assist that features amassing and reviewing all details pertaining to pupil’s scenario, creating assist plan (consists of referrals to on campus sources and companies, and neighborhood sources) and follow-up. The assist response is scalable and tailor-made to every particular pupil’s wants
• Offering assist and tutorial steering to college students to make sure referral and follow-up success
• Offering follow-up intervention and steering to make sure that college students with psychiatric /psychological well being advanced wants/considerations are appropriately assessed, efficiently referred, and assist with therapy suggestions
• Being liable for follow-up contact to evaluate referral efficacy- performing as marketing consultant to college and workers to facilitate referrals to Campus Wellness and to therapy sources exterior of Campus Wellness
• Helping college students with inside College procedures associated to petitions, leaves of absence and appeals
• Participating in collaborative involvement with college students within the re-entry course of for these people on voluntary or involuntary leaves of absence
• Take part in Advanced Care Workforce as a contributing member in advanced circumstances
• Initiating and develop on-going liaison relationships with neighborhood well being suppliers, companies, hospitals, and different sources to facilitate pupil referrals and entry neighborhood sources
• Creating and sustaining a database of referral sources and companies in surrounding communities whereas making certain such data is available for all Campus Wellness personnel
• Following and monitoring referrals for college students with recognized excessive threat wants making certain they’re receiving acceptable intervention and observe up care
• Collaborate with Counselling Companies consumption to rearrange observe up appointments for Again to Campus shoppers launched from hospital stays-may contain direct reserving into Counsellors schedules
• Present protection to the Psychological Well being Nurse as essential the place acceptable

Documentation and Communication

• In session with scientific professionals, develops a care plan for every excessive want pupil being tracked by the Advanced Care staff
• Keep correct and well timed case data and put together essential statistical reviews
• Keep a listing of neighborhood sources accessible to college students and to Campus Wellness well being care professionals
• Help college students in understanding College coverage the place coverage has affect on pupil success and care
• Have interaction in ongoing monitoring and analysis of practices, programs and processes that affect success for at-risk and college students with advanced psychiatric/psychological well being wants/considerations
• Put together an annual report
• Establish areas for enchancment as indicated, make suggestions for change, and take part in evaluation and revision of programs and protocols as acceptable

Collaboration

• The SCSW works with a Advanced Care staff made up of Psychiatrists, Psychological Well being Nurse, Physicians and Counselling workers
• Gives session with Counselling Companies workers as wanted
• The SCSW assists with Advanced Care staff processes akin to consumption, precedence willpower, schedule of evaluations and discharge planning
• This partnership for the psychological well being, well being and wellness, well-being and security of the campus neighborhood consists of lively collaboration and teaming with a give attention to shopper problems with shared concern

Dedication to finest scientific observe

• The SCSW has a radical understanding of developmental problems with late adolescence (e.g., relationships, psychiatric diagnoses, psychological well being, disordered consuming, transition, sexuality, and so forth.)
• The SCSW is educated of neighborhood sources to assist shoppers with disordered consuming and gender transitioning
• Stays present with pertinent moral necessities, analysis, and issues related to the fields of case administration
• Maintains a excessive stage of data and consciousness of adjustments and developments within the fields of upper training and case administration, and their implications for the group and repair supply inside the establishment and the neighborhood
• Represents the curiosity of Campus Wellness at conferences, workshops, and so forth.

{Qualifications}

• A Bachelor of Social Work diploma with a powerful background in psychological well being
• Expertise with late adolescents and rising adults in academic or medical settings strongly fascinating
• Should preserve registration and be in good standing with Faculty of Social Employees of Ontario
• Working data of Ontario Psychological Well being Act, Constitution of Rights and Freedoms
• Working data of psychiatric sicknesses/problems
• Confirmed document of accomplishment in case administration or related subject
• Expertise in college or school setting is useful and most popular
• Common computing expertise
• Expertise with conducting, decoding and using related utilized analysis
• Demonstrated expertise constructing consensus and influencing others in a various and multi-disciplinary setting with diplomacy is required
• Confirmed capability to supply solution-focused interventions
• Data of disaster administration and skill to safe acceptable assist
• Distinctive interpersonal expertise and communication expertise
• Glorious planning, organizational and time administration expertise and sound judgement to prioritize workload in a repeatedly altering setting

Fairness Assertion

The College of Waterloo acknowledges that a lot of our work takes place on the normal territory of the Impartial, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our principal campus is located on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that features six miles on all sides of the Grand River. Our lively work towards reconciliation takes place throughout our campuses by way of analysis, studying, educating, and neighborhood constructing, and is co-ordinated inside the .

The College values the varied and intersectional identities of its college students, school, and workers. The College regards fairness and variety as an integral a part of tutorial excellence and is dedicated to accessibility for all staff. The College of Waterloo seeks candidates who embrace our values of fairness, anti-racism and inclusion. As such, we encourage purposes from candidates who’ve been traditionally deprived and marginalized, together with candidates who determine as First Nations, Métis and/or Inuk (Inuit), Black, racialized, an individual with a incapacity, girls and/or 2SLGBTQ+.

All certified candidates are inspired to use; nonetheless, Canadians and everlasting residents might be given precedence.

The College of Waterloo is dedicated to accessibility for individuals with disabilities. You probably have any software, interview, or office lodging requests, please contact Human Sources at or 519-888-4567, ext. 45935.

Anticipated wage

$64375 – 80468 per yr

Location

Waterloo, ON

Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:25:46 GMT

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