Discharge Planner

Trillium Health Partners; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Trillium Health Partners is seeking a Social Worker/Discharge Planner at Credit Valley Hospital to support timely patient transitions through discharge planning. Under the Manager of Discharge Planning, you will work with an interdisciplinary team to ensure patients and families are guided to the right place, at the right time, with appropriate care.

We value compassion, collaboration, and strong psychosocial assessment skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in health discipline required; MSW preferred.
• Current registration with Regulated College.
• 2–5 years clinical experience in an acute care hospital.
• Discharge planning experience is essential.
• Psychosocial assessments and counselling experience.
• Strong interview, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of community resources and resource mapping.
• Familiarity with hospital legislation and aging/demographic needs.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate discharge planning using critical thinking and collaboration.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments and develop discharge plans with patient and family.
• Coordinate timely transitions to community while addressing barriers.
• Assess risk and determine need for social work services.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to implement discharge plans.

Skills

Discharge planning

Psychosocial assessment

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Communication

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Health Discipline

Master of Social Work (MSW) preferred

Job description

Job Description

Position: Social Worker/ Discharge Planner
Dept: Discharge Planning
Posting ID: 8261
Role Level: Allied Health (AH10.6-$47.05-$60.98)
Status: Permanent Full Time (x1)
Site: Credit Valley Hospital, RCC, THP-UHN RCC.
Hours: Days, occasional Weekends/Holidays | 8-4, 8:30-4:30, 9-5
Posting Date: September 9th, 2026
Posting Deadline: September 16th, 2026

Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals, serving the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, the Reactivation care Centre (Church Site) and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030, we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.

Job Description

Under the leadership of the Manager, Discharge Planning, the Social Worker/Discharge Planner will work within a fast paced environment as a collaborative team member of an interdisciplinary team. The primary goal of Discharge Planning services is to support and enable patients and families to make timely transitions through the hospital system. The Social Worker does all of this in an effort with the goal of providing an exceptional patient and family experience. The Social Worker/Discharge Planner understands the Flow and Capacity challenges of a hospital system and works to achieve that the patients are in the right place, at the right time, receiving the right care.

Responsibilities

• Employing critical thinking and creative problem solving to facilitate all discharge planning, including complex discharge planning situations;
• Providing in-depth discharged focused assessments, collaboratively creating the discharge plan with the team, the patient and their family and providing support, education and guidance through the implementation of the discharge plan;
• Facilitating a timely transition to the community; identifying safety gaps/challenges and addressing all barriers using most appropriate resources in partnership with internal and external partners;
• Assessing risk and need for psychosocial intervention;
• Providing psychosocial assessments to identify the need for and subsequent provision of clinical social work services and/or referral to Social Work.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a Health Discipline is required; Masters of Social Work (MSW) preferred
• Current registration and membership with Regulated College;
• 2-5 years clinical experience in an acute care hospital setting;
• Experience in discharge planning is essential;
• Demonstrated ability to conduct psychosocial assessments and counselling and/or demonstrated ability to assess risk and need for referral to Social Work for psychosocial assessment and intervention;
• Demonstrated excellence in interview skills and ability;
• Current knowledge of community resources and initiative to proactively search for new resources;
• Experience with legislation that governs Public Hospitals (Public Hospitals Act, Substitute Decisions Act, Consent to Treatment Act, etc.);
• Extensive knowledge on how to effectively serve an increasingly aging and diverse population with complex medical, functional, cognitive and psychosocial needs;
• Comprehensive knowledge of the impact of social determinants of health on discharge planning, hospital LOS, Patient Flow and hospital system capacity;
• Expert communication, collaboration, organizational and problem solving skills;
• Ability to work independently as well as with an interdisciplinary team;
• Demonstrated ability to set priorities;
• Skilled working with a broad range of client groups and their significant supports.

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

About Us

Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals. Our team of more than 17,000 people serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, west Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and nine satellite locations. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030 , we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.