Mental Health Social Worker 1

HDGH; Windsor; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare in Windsor, Ontario, seeks a Mental Health Social Worker I to join an inter-professional team providing community-based support to children, youth and families dealing with emotional, behavioural, and developmental needs.

The role focuses on Coordinated Intake Access Service Planning, helping clients access appropriate services quickly; responsibilities include intake assessments, referrals, case conferences, and reporting, while upholding family-centered,

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ social work experience, preferably with children/youth and developmental needs.
• Strong assessment and crisis intervention skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Assess client needs and priority during intake to determine appropriate services and crisis risk.
• Communicate preliminary service options to child/youth and family at intake.
• Refer to local service providers or collaborate with other sectors as needed.
• Coordinate access processes and support system-level planning.
• Develop and facilitate coordination among community agencies and partners.
• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings and community conferences.
• Assist with referrals for local and out-of-town placements.
• Complete complex special needs applications as required.
• Maintain required reports (progress notes, assessments).
• Promote constructive relationships among providers, children, youth and families.

Skills

Verbal & written communication

Judgment & initiative

Team collaboration

Independent work

Relationship building

French (asset)

Education

BSW with clinical focus (or equivalent)

Ontario College of Social Workers & Social Service Workers registration

Job description

Job Description

This position involves working as a member of an inter-professional team offering collaborative, community-based comprehensive support to children/youth in Windsor/Essex under 18 years of age who are experiencing emotional/behavioural/social/complex mental health and/or developmental needs and their families. The Mental Health Social Worker I assumes the role of Coordinated Intake Access Service Planning. This position helps children, youth and families’ access appropriate services and support quickly and easily.

Responsibilities

• As part of the intake process, the client’s level of need and urgency is assessed in order to determine the appropriate service required, establish priority for service(s) based on risk, and identify the need for crisis services, where necessary
• Preliminary service options are communicated to the child or youth and family at intake.
• If appropriate, referrals are made to the most appropriate local service providers (e.g., through access to core services or through collaboration with or redirection to other sectors that better match the needs of the child/youth)
• The coordinated access process supports system-level planning and integrated case management.
• Developing and facilitating coordination and collaboration among community agencies and partners
• Participate in and co-facilitate community case conferences, multidisciplinary team meetings, and other client-related meetings for children/youth
• Co-facilitate monthly Local Resolution Table meetings (case resolution process)
• Assist in the referral process for local and out-of-town placements
• Coordinating and completing complex special needs applications (when required)
• To attend community case conferences as required.
• To participate in regularly scheduled supervision and seek out supervision and consultation as needed to provide effective services to assigned children/youth and families.
• Responsible for the completion of relevant reports in accordance with established standards (e.g., progress notes, assessment reports, etc.)
• To promote constructive relationships amongst service providers and children, adolescents and families
• Attendance at scheduled Departmental and Service/Program meetings.
• Participates in staff in-service training and consultation with other staff.
• Fulfills other duties as assigned to ensure that services are being provided in an efficient and effective manner.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a social work capacity with preference given to children’s mental health and/or understanding of developmental complex special needs
• Good clinical skills in area of assessment and crisis intervention
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High level of judgment, independence and initiative
• Ability to develop and maintain constructive working relationships within the multidisciplinary team and with community partners
• Willingness and ability to respond to parents and the community in an expeditious, courteous, and helpful manner
• Experience working with children/youth and their families.
• Knowledge of child development.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Commitment to strength-based principles of child, youth, and family centeredness.
• Experience working with the child and youth service system.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and contribute to a team.
• Ability to maintain strong professional boundaries.
• Additional supportive qualification
• Strong organizational, verbal, written and reporting skills
• Strong counselling skills
• Experience working with individuals experiencing trauma
• Experience with and knowledge of behavioural concepts
• Must have a demonstrated ability to make critical decisions quickly
• Excellent communication skills with the command of the French language considered an asset.
• Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare is committed to providing accessible employment practices that follow the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Should you require accommodation during any phase of the recruitment process, please let our recruitment team know.

Education and/or Certification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work (BSW) with clinical skills in the areas of children/youth and families and minimum three years’ work OR equivalent experience with vulnerable or at-risk populations including special needs
• Current Certification of Registration issued through the Ontario College of Social Workers & Social Service Workers