Health Care Social Worker (Masters) - Public Health Early Years

Req ID: 190865
Location: Western Zone, Location is flexible within the South Shore  
Department: PH EY Early Years WZ
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1 
NSGEU Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 14-Nov-24

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.

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About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager, Early Years, the Social Worker works as a member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team to provide a diverse range of support to families and reduce health inequities in the prenatal, postpartum and early childhood period. The Social Worker takes a person-centered and trauma and violence-informed care (TVIC) approach to perinatal mental health interventions such as screening, biopsychosocial assessment, education and brief intervention, and care planning to support perinatal mental health and wellbeing.

The Social Worker works to develop and enhance community relationships, holds knowledge of and collaborates with community partners and services. The Social Worker provides specialist consultation and support to multidisciplinary team members and holds integrated knowledge of the social, structural, emotional, psychological, and cultural determinants for well-being in the early years.

About You

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

• Master of Social Work (specialization in a community or perinatal mental health stream considered an asset)
• Registration with the Nova Scotia College of Social Work required
• Two years of clinical experience providing independent assessment and treatment of mental health disorders
• Experience in a community mental health setting considered an asset
• Specialized knowledge of acute and persistent mental health disorders and concurrent disorders in the perinatal period an asset
• Knowledge of evidenced based interventions such as CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and risk assessment is an asset

About You Continued

• Understanding of substance use and addiction
• Knowledge of standards that guide the profession
• Knowledge of and ability to link to community resources
• Strong focus on client care and ability to build solid client/practitioner therapeutic relationships
• Commitment to continuous quality improvement and innovation
• Commitment to promoting a culture that supports safety, ethical practices and organizational health
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to provide culturally safe, TVIC, harm reduction approaches and strengths-based care
• Demonstrated knowledge of the social and structural determinants of health as related to prenatal, postnatal and early childhood
• Knowledge of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and implications for health, child development, parenting and attachment outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• Broad knowledge of crisis intervention and supportive counseling skills
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to conduct early and brief interventions with clients
• This position requires work at multiple sites and travel between various community locations throughout the area.
• A valid Nova Scotia Driver’s License and access to reliable transportation
• 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.

Hours

• Permanent Full Time / 75 hours bi-weekly

Compensation and Benefits

$37.31 - $49.05 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.

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.