Health Care Social Worker B (BSW) – Primary Health Care

Job title:

Well being Care Social Employee B (BSW) – Major Well being Care

Firm

Nova Scotia Well being Authority

Job description

​Req ID: 177161
Firm: Nova Scotia Well being
Location: Western Zone, Multi-site at Fisherman’s Memorial Hospital, Queens Basic Hospital and South Shore Regional Hospital.
Division: PHC WZ, Diabetes and Continual Illness Administration
Kind of Employment: Everlasting Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 place(s)
Standing: CUPE Healthcare Place
Posting Closing Date: 17-Apr-24Nova Scotia Well being is the biggest supplier of well being providers in Nova Scotia, with some specialised providers additionally supplied to shoppers all through Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to realize excellence in well being, therapeutic and studying via working collectively, which is mirrored within the hospitals, well being centres and community-based packages we function throughout the province. Our passionate staff of execs offers quite a lot of high-quality inpatient and outpatient providers together with educational, tertiary, and quaternary care, in addition to persevering with care, major well being care, public well being, and psychological well being and addictions. Be part of a various staff of innovators, collaborators and inventive thinkers at the moment.Nova Scotia Well being employs professionals in all corners of our stunning province. We imagine there’s a spot right here for everybody to name residence, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint cities with picturesque trails. The work-life stability that comes with a Nova Scotia Well being position means you will have the time to discover, uncover, and take part in that coveted Atlantic way of life. Go to us at the moment and take a look at to see why extra folks from throughout the globe are transferring right here.Concerning the AlternativeReporting to the Well being Providers Supervisor, Continual Illness Administration and Wellness, Major Well being Care, the Social Employee (BSW) is a member of a collaborative interprofessional staff or groups and performs an essential position within the supply of Major Well being Care. The Social Employee takes a participatory method, designed to optimize well being beneficial properties, to screening, evaluation, counselling, supporting persistent illness misery, group facilitation, navigation, care planning and advocacy. Motivational interviewing and transient resolution targeted questions are normal approaches. Scope of position contains data of group primarily based providers and referral to applicable packages/providers locally together with, however not restricted to Neighborhood Providers and group primarily based psychological well being providers. The Social Employee liaises with different packages and providers and develops intensive relationship constructing and bridging with each inside and exterior to Nova Scotia Well being packages and providers.The collaborative household apply staff works collectively to develop and ship providers to the complete inhabitants locally cluster, together with outreach to distant areas and providers to fulfill the wants of precedence populations. This place requires work at a number of websites and journey between numerous group places all through the realm. As effectively, the social employee will hyperlink with, and in some instances collaborate with, collaborative household apply groups built-in wellness and persistent illness packages and providers supplied by major well being care and others locally well being community.The Social Employee reveals sound skilled judgment and initiative whereas working throughout the Mission, Imaginative and prescient and Strategic Instructions of Nova Scotia Well being.About YouWe might love to listen to from you when you have the next:

• Bachelor’s Diploma in Social Work (BSW) from an accredited and accepted Faculty of Social Work/College Program
• Present registration (or eligibility for registration) and a member in good standing with the Nova Scotia Affiliation of Social Staff
• Minimal two years of expertise as a registered Social Employee, ideally inside a group primarily based health-care setting; if no candidates meet the two-year expertise required, candidates with lower than two years’ expertise could also be thought of.
• Current, related expertise working with group businesses/assets, volunteers and help teams
• Demonstrated skill to finish preliminary and ongoing consumer assessments (medical and diagnostic reasoning), interviewing and client-centered drawback fixing, care planning, case administration, analysis of consumer competence in self-care and different relation outcomes in a Major Well being Care atmosphere
• Potential to prepare and preserve consumer well being data inside an EMR together with steady studying round EMR functionalities thought of an asset
• Understanding of or willingness to study well being teaching strategies and interventions, together with transient and short-term resolution targeted remedy and motivational interviewing, throughout the timeframe prescribed on graduation of place
• Demonstrated skill to speak successfully with sufferers, households, public, group companions, major care staff members and different professionals and businesses utilizing verbal, written and pc communication means
• Displays traits of heat, empathy, humor, and a non-judgmental philosophy of care
• Demonstrated crucial considering abilities inside scope of apply together with medical judgment and problem-solving abilities and the power to combine and consider pertinent information (from a number of sources) to problem-solve successfully
• Demonstrated robust moral requirements and a dedication to skilled growth and life-long studying

About you cont.

• Expertise in help and counseling for persistent illness administration misery is an asset
• Demonstrated dedication to variety, fairness, inclusion, reconciliation and accessibility
• Potential to advertise client-focused care that demonstrates look after and with shoppers and vital others, delicate to numerous cultures and preferences, consumer advocacy and social justice issues Robust understanding of well being promotion, inhabitants well being, and the determinants of well being concept and apply
• Potential to transmit info grounded in conduct change and principals of self-management meant to instruct shoppers and others about subjects important to well being care and well-being
• Manages time and assets, implementing actions to advertise cooperation amongst related others, collaboration throughout disciplines and associated actions
• Demonstrated skill in making use of new and revolutionary applied sciences and methods for schooling and affected person counselling.
• Expertise facilitating education schemes and group conferences
• Information and expertise with Microsoft Workplace Applications, together with Outlook
• Legitimate driver’s license and/or entry to dependable transportation required
• Touring between websites throughout the native community and to conferences in different localities as required
• Competencies in different languages an asset, French most well-liked. Potential to work with language company to ship care to sufferers in different languages is taken into account an asset

Please guarantee your resume is updated and contains all related schooling, expertise, coaching, and certifications.Hours

• Everlasting full-time place; 75 hours bi-weekly.
• Shifts embrace days, nights and weekends (or different particular hours of shifts)
• Journey to varied websites could also be required

Compensation and Incentives$33.97 – $42.89HourlyProfitable candidates could also be eligible for our advantages bundle which incorporates well being, dental, journey, long-term incapacity, and life insurance coverage protection in addition to an outlined profit pension plan.As soon as You have UtilizedThanks to your curiosity on this place. Solely these candidates chosen for an interview will likely be contacted.​This can be a Healthcare bargaining unit place. Desire is given to bargaining unit workers for unionized positions. Staff are inspired to view their seniority hours and dates of their SuccessFactors on-line profile. Profitable candidates altering unions, bargaining items or employment standing, are suggested to hunt clarification relating to their seniority, advantages, and trip entitlement and/or utilization, previous to accepting the place.Nova Scotia Well being is dedicated to being a workforce that is freed from discrimination, values variety and is consultant, in any respect job ranges, of the folks we serve. We encourage all certified candidates who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Individuals of Color, Overseas Nationals/Newcomers, Individuals with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to use and self-identify.Observe Us!

Anticipated wage

Location

Lunenburg, NS

Job date

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:27:13 GMT

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