medical social worker

Additional Information

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 38.75 hours per week
• Education: Bachelor's degree
• Experience: Experience an asset

Work setting

• Relocation costs covered by employer
• Willing to relocate
• Hospital

Tasks

• Interview clients to assess their situation and determine the types of services required and eligibility
• Perform administrative tasks
• Provide counsel and therapy to help clients resolve social and personal problems
• Plan programs of assistance for clients
• Investigate cases of child abuse or neglect and take authorized protective action when necessary
• Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team working with a client group
• Provide mediation services and psychosocial assessments

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Membership in a provincial association of social workers

Target audience

• Adolescents
• Children
• Elderly
• Females
• Males
• Minority group
• People with personal or social adjustment difficulty
• Persons with physical disabilities
• Social assistance recipient
• Family

Social work specialization

• Health
• Family mediation
• Palliative care

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Child Abuse Registry check
• Immunization records
• Adult Abuse Registry check

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Attention to detail
• Large workload

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Excellent written communication
• Flexibility
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Values and ethics

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan
• Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

• Bonus

Long term benefits

• Group insurance benefits
• Life insurance
• Maternity and parental benefits
• Other benefits
• Pension plan
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

Other benefits

• Free parking available