Social Worker II

Your Opportunity:

The Social Worker II in Give Life Alberta is a highly specialized role that supports patients and families through the transplant process from referral and assessment to transplantation and lifelong post-transplant care. Our multidisciplinary team provides support to transplant recipients ensuring all transplant-related impacts are managed, and overall quality of life is improved. As a member of the Transplant Program at UAH - one of the largest and most established transplant programs in the country - you will contribute to a leading, innovative service that delivers high-quality, patient-centered care. This program is recognized nationally for its clinical expertise, research excellence, and commitment to advancing transplant medicine. In this role you will work collaboratively within a dynamic interdisciplinary environment to provide comprehensive psychosocial assessment, counselling, education, and support to patients/families navigating the complex transplant journey. You will have the opportunity to build meaningful therapeutic relationships over time, engage in complex discharge/ care planning and advocate for equitable access to transplant services. This position offers a unique chance to practice at an advanced level of clinical social work within a program that continually strives for excellence and innovation. If you are passionate about making a life-changing impact on patients/families, this role provides a rewarding and highly specialized practice environment.

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.