Social Worker, FIOS

Social Worker, Family Intensive Outreach Services

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Company: IWK Health
Req ID: 201640
Department/Program: Family Intensive Outreach Services, Mental Health And Addictions
Location: Halifax
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) for 1 year x 1 position(s)
Start Date: May 2025
Union Status: NSGEU Hlthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit
Compensation: $40.1798 - $56.0355/hour
Closing Date: April 30, 2025 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers, and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs.

Promoting an anti-racist environment is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager of Family Intensive Outreach Services, the Social Worker (Masters) is responsible for the planning and provision of treatment with children/youth and their families struggling with Disruptive Behaviour Disorders (FIOS) across the age spectrum of the MHA Program. The FIOS service provides intensive, family-based interventions for children/youth and their families using the Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy Model (ESFT). As an integral member of the interprofessional team, the Social Worker (Masters) is a treatment clinician responsible for providing individual and family treatment for children/youth and their families. The Clinical Social Worker provides consultation, guidance, and support to the service as needed, and leads the clinical coordination of treatment plans for clients and families. The Social Worker (Masters) provides clinical supervision to staff, promotes the provision of quality, evidence-based care to clients and families, participates in service development, and provides leadership to the treatment process. Clinical services are provided to the family in their homes or another location convenient to them requiring the incumbent to travel regularly within the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Hours of Work

Monday to Friday: 7.5 hour days, some evening hours may be required. Travel inside and outside of HRM will be required.

Your Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Social Work required.
• Currently licensed with, or eligible to be licensed, with the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers (NSCSW) required.
• Minimum of two (2) years related clinical experience as a Masters prepared Social Worker in the field of child/adolescent mental health and addictions is required.
• Current NVCI certification required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in providing individual and family therapy required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of disruptive behaviour disorders preferred.
• Demonstrated theoretical knowledge and practice competency in a family systems approach preferred.
• Demonstrated experience and skills in assessment and treatment of youth and families where a young person is struggling with mental health and/or addictions issues.
• Recent experience in providing clinical supervision to staff/team preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of treatment implications of mental health issues and/or addictions.
• Working knowledge of Trauma-Informed Care preferred.
• Understanding of, and commitment to, evidence-informed practice/best practices required.
• Demonstrated excellence in communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as a member of an interprofessional care team, while effectively carrying out administrative and clinical responsibilities required.
• Demonstrated excellent time management, workload prioritization, and organizational skills required.
• Demonstrated conflict resolution skills required.
• Holds a valid minimal Class 5 Nova Scotia driver's license and reliable transportation required.
• Competencies in other languages an asset.

Thank you for your interest in IWK Health. Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials.