Social Worker

Lifemark; Corner Brook; Hybrid; CAD 45,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare community as a Registered Social Worker, where your expertise in clinical counselling will help optimize integrated health services. This role focuses on providing vital support to military veterans and other clients facing mental health challenges. You will engage in goal-focused psychotherapy, conduct assessments, and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to enhance client outcomes. With a commitment to staff wellness and an inclusive environment, this innovative firm values simplicity, integrity, and fun. If you are passionate about making a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Social Work with registration as an autonomous practitioner.
• 1-3 years experience in clinical counselling for trauma and PTSD.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychotherapy for military veterans and other clients with mental health issues.
• Conduct social work assessments and interventions to improve community functioning.

Skills

Clinical Counselling

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Interpersonal Skills

Case Conceptualization

Psycho-social Intervention

Education

Masters Degree in Social Work

Job description

Registered Social Worker - Lifemark Health Group

• Casual Part Time @ approx. 15 hrs/week
• Location: Ideally on-site, w/ possibility for Hybrid or Fully Remote arrangements. FIT for Work - Corner Brook is located at 8 Gullage Avenue, Corner Brook, NL A2H 7J4

Are you a passionate Social Worker looking to belong to a collaborative healthcare community to implement our bold vision to optimize the benefit of integrated health services, including stepped-care mental health, to diverse audiences, including military Veterans in need of psycho-social intervention? If so, join Lifemark Health Group and grow with us, as we build and expand our provincial teams in support of our national mental health strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Provide clients, primarily PCVRS military veterans, Workers Compensation Board referrals via the TPI program (Traumatic Psychological Injury), LTD, MVA with goal-focused psychotherapy to address mental health and psychosocial problems that are barriers to better health and family/community engagement.
• Provide veteran and other clients with social work assessments and social work interventions in the client’s social milieuin order toimprove social and community functioning.
• Utilize a primarily cognitive-behavioral approach to intervention based on an overall client-centered philosophy.
• Provide individual and group psychoeducational services.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team conferences to discuss clients’ treatment plan and goals, progress, and any barriers to functional goals.
• Deliver quality reporting and effective communication with all stakeholders.

Key Qualifications:

• MastersDegree in Social Work
• Registration with a provincial College of Social Workers as an autonomous practitioner in good standing
• 1-3 years of experience in Clinical Counselling services for trauma and PTSD is required
• Prior experience in case conceptualization and psychotherapy/social work intervention for a range of mental health symptoms and psycho-social barriers with a variety of adult clients
• Experience providing social work services to military, first responders, and veterans an asset
• Experience working as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team
• Experience writing clear and concise assessments, progress and discharge reports.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, autonomy, and integrity

While our company is focused on helping our clients, as a group we are equally focused on the health and wellness of our staff. We live our values in everything thing we do - striving for simplicity, doing the right thing, being inclusive and welcoming, and having fun!

Apply today! Please visit our website at www.lifemark.ca

Inclusion

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. Improving inclusion and equity is a collective responsibility. Lifemark promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including but not limited to those self-identifying as a member of the employment equity groups: Indigenous peoples, Newcomers to Canada, Women, and Visible minorities.

Accommodation

Accommodations are available on request for all candidates taking part in any aspect of the recruitment and selection process. Email us at talent at lifemark.ca