Social Worker; Sunnyside

Job Number: 4950
Job Type:Temporary Full-Time
Vacancy Reason: Temporary
Temp Contract Length: Up to 6 months
Location: 247 Franklin St N - Sunnyside Home
Number of Positions:1
Division: Community Services
Hours of Work: 35 hours per week, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday
Union: Management/Management Support
Grade: Management/Management Support Grade 05
Salary Range: $85,430.80 - $

At Sunnyside Home, care is personal.

As the first long-term care home in Waterloo Region certified in The Butterfly Approach®, we are recognized for creating a warm, home-like environment where relationships, emotional well-being, and resident choice come first.

Here, you’ll be part of a compassionate and innovative team that is committed to meaningful connections, person-centred care, and making every day matter for residents and families.

If you’re looking for more than just a job, and want to be part of a workplace where kindness, collaboration, and dignity are at the heart of the work, we’d love to hear from you.

The Region of Waterloo is a diverse and growing community committed to creating opportunities for current and future generations.

Waterloo Region is part of the Dish With One Spoon wampum, a treaty grounded in sharing, sustainability, and respect:

• Take only what we need
• Leave some for others
• Keep the dish clean

These principles continue to guide our commitment to reconciliation, inclusion, and community well-being.

Applies social work knowledge, skills, values, and principles to a range of personal, inter-personal, and social challenges to assist residents, clients, and families at Sunnyside Home towards enhanced psychosocial wellbeing; and provides related admissions services to clients, residents, and their families.

• Applies social work knowledge, skills, values, and principles to assist residents, clients, and their families toward enhanced psychosocial wellbeing. Provides psychosocial assessment and counselling, and develops, implements, and evaluates goals/plans with residents, families, and staff as required.
• Provides pre-and-post admission support (e.g., tours, education) to prospective residents and their families. Supports a smooth transition into Sunnyside Home in collaboration with staff teams. Refers to specialized supports as necessary (e.g., BSO program, specialized mental health).
• Reviews and assesses admissions applications for long term care, respite, and convalescent care and approves/withholds applications in consultation with nursing team. Communicates and responds to applicants/LHIN regarding status of applications.
• Provides professional social work consultation to multidisciplinary teams. Intervenes in crisis situations (e.g., resident violence, family breakdown, suicidal ideation, psychiatric emergencies).
• Provides information about consent and privacy practices to residents, clients, and their families. Ensures proper documentation for clinical consents and substitute decision makers. Facilitates application to Public Guardian and Trustee, as required.
• Provides leadership on conflict prevention/resolution between families, residents, and staff.
• Participates in resident-focused multi-disciplinary care conferences, rounds, discharge planning, family meetings, and ethics consultations. Addresses questions, complaints, and concerns from residents, clients, and their families.
• Maintains and manages the internal room transfer list. Facilitates resident room transfers with staff teams, residents, and their families.
• Participates in/chairs internal committees, community task forces, and inter-agency committees, as required. Works on special projects as needed. Represents the Region when liaising with community agencies.
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