Your Opportunity:

Alberta Health Services has an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker Professional Clinical Practice Lead (SW III), who will support front-line staff in the Acute Adult Inpatient Units at CCMHBI. Reporting to the Director of Acute AIP, you will be in a key leadership role, who is responsible for coaching, mentoring, and supervising social work staff; ensuring services are provided in a culturally safe environment and that all who are involved are treated with dignity and respect while fostering networks and partnerships to establish standards of practice and achieve goals and priorities within the department. The position will be leading the planning, development, delivery, and evaluation of services in AIP; and communicating clinical program issues and staff support needs with the unit managers. As a member of the AIP Social Work team, you will work collaboratively with other social workers and allied health members, AIP Managers, Clinical Educators, front-line staff and other departments/leaders to support excellence in patient and family-centered care. This position will act as a key resource for staff and managers for evidence-based practices, professional standards and ethics, and legislative requirements for the profession. This position participates and leads quality improvement initiatives, evaluation and knowledge translation activities based on patient, population, and service sector needs. This position has transitioned to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Recovery Alberta.

Description:

As a Social Worker III, you will perform either advanced level assessment and treatment or act as a clinical lead. You will work with or within teams to provide health care services for patients with complex and multidimensional medical, psychosocial, environmental and instrumental needs. You will provide advanced clinical services, consultation to the interprofessional team and patients/families and supervision of students and team members as assigned. You may also act as a clinical lead providing leadership in the planning, development, and delivery of services in a specific area, as well as staff development, quality improvement and evaluation or research activities as identified by the needs of the service area(s).