Social Worker, MSW - Fraser Canyon Hospital

The salary range for this position is CAD $44.85 - $56.02 / hour

A unique rural opportunity for you just a short two-hour drive east of Vancouver’s city centre. Hope is an outdoor paradise with a variety of recreational opportunities and a vibrant culture all surrounded by majestic mountains and breathtaking views. To learn more about Hope and all it has to offer .

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to six Métis Chartered Communities.

Our team of 48,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision:
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• competitive compensation package (including four weeks of vacation to start, comprehensive health benefits, and pension plan)
• career growth and advancement
• the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care

Reporting to the Manager, Health Services, the Social Worker participates in the development, implementation, and evaluation of social work programs and services designed to deliver quality, client-focused care consistent with the mission, vision and values of Fraser Health.

The Social Worker acts on referrals from staff, community based agencies, self and/or family referrals, conducts comprehensive social and psycho-social assessments and liaises with community agencies to ensure optimal continuity of care for patients and residents.

• Collaborates with the Manager, Health Services to develop, maintain and evaluate social work clinical practice standards, policies, and procedures.
• Assumes the clinical caseload for Fraser Hope Lodge and Fraser Canyon Hospital and acts on referrals from staff, community based agencies, self and/or family referrals. Plans, implements and evaluates treatment of clients in accordance with Fraser Health standards and the Social Work Code of Ethics. Models and facilitates a client-focused, goal-directed, interdisciplinary professional practice model. Responds to referrals from emergency and reviews admissions to acute, sub-acute, and hospice for high-risk indicators.
• Conducts comprehensive social work and psycho-social assessments by methods such as interviewing the patient and/or family, obtaining relevant information, gathering social data regarding the patient and/or family and interpreting the data using a variety of modalities, in accordance with professional standards and clinical policies and practices.
• Follows up and provides ongoing monitoring of complex psychosocial situations, evaluates patient's response to clinical interventions, follows the patient through the continuum of care.
• Mantains patient records by methods such as documenting patient assessments, charting patient information, preparing progress notes and reports in accordance with established standards, policies sand procedures.
• Acts a as a resource for patients and their families by providing information regarding community resources and access to these resources, facilitating referrals where appropriate and facilitating the development of community resources by identifyng services needed to support the health of families.
• Liases with hospital and community staff to clarify patient/resident and family needs. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to identify service gaps in the community and brings these issues to the attention of the Manager, Health Services.
• Maintains a variety of records such as workload statistics by methods such as recording information in approved formats, collating…