Original job description
Your Opportunity:
Assisted Living Alberta at Leduc Hospital is looking for a Social Worker to support patients in acute and emergency department settings. This position requires a high degree of critical thinking, strong knowledge of Social Work scope and role, and a passion for practice excellence. You will be required to prioritize workload, formulate assessments and create intervention plans in a short timeframe. These plans include psychosocial and financial interventions, risk management and resourcing to support ongoing treatment and/or discharge planning. The Social Worker will demonstrate exceptional communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with caregivers, families, and community organizations. This position works with multidisciplinary teams and requires competence in approaching questions about decision-making and capacity. This position is highly involved with processes, services and resources related to alternate levels of care.
Description:
As a Social Worker II, you will be a member of an inter-disciplinary team and provides a range of social work services to patients and their families. Your services may include: psychosocial assessment, resource-based interventions, individual, group and family treatment, risk screening, counselling, case management and coordination, transition or discharge planning, and prevention, promotion and public awareness activities.
Transition Company: Assisted Living Alberta Classification: Social Worker II Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH Unit and Program: Hospital Primary Location: Leduc Community Hospital Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.40 Posting End Date: 17-NOV-2026 Employee Class: Regular Part Time Date Available: 07-DEC-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 12 Shifts per cycle: 24 Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings Days Off: As Per Rotation Minimum Salary: $42.14 Maximum Salary: $56.02 Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of bachelor's degree in Social Work. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).
Additional Required Qualifications:
Recent experience working in an inpatient setting contributing to discharge planning. Experience supporting healthcare teams in the areas of capacity and decision-making. Experience working with risk and supporting patients and families to manage risk. Experience navigating ethics and ethical decision-making. Experience with supportive counseling. Experience collaborating with hospital transitions and community housing providers.
Preferred Qualifications:
As Required.
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Responsibilities
Provide social work services to patients and families, including psychosocial assessments, counseling, risk screening, case management, and resource-based interventions. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, caregivers, families, and community organizations on treatment, capacity and decision-making concerns, and transition or discharge planning.
Requirements
A bachelor's degree in Social Work and active or eligible registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers are required. Candidates need recent inpatient discharge-planning experience, along with experience supporting capacity and decision-making, managing risk, ethical decision-making, supportive counseling, and collaboration with hospital transition teams and community housing providers.
Skills
- Psychosocial Assessment
- Discharge Planning
- Capacity and Decision-Making Support
- Risk Management
- Supportive Counseling
- Case Management
- Care Coordination
- Transition Planning
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Resource-Based Interventions
- Family Treatment
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Communication
- Workload Prioritization
- Community Resource Navigation
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Categories
- Social Services
- Healthcare
Keywords
- Social Work
- Alberta College of Social Workers
- Psychosocial Assessment
- Resource-Based Interventions
- Individual Treatment
- Group Treatment
- Family Treatment
- Risk Screening
- Counseling
- Case Management
- Care Coordination
- Transition Planning
- Discharge Planning
- Capacity Assessment
- Decision-Making
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Alternate Levels of Care
- Inpatient Care
- Acute Care
- Emergency Department
- Multidisciplinary Team
- Community Housing
- Patient and Family Support
