Health Care Social Worker (Masters) - Public Health Early Years

​Req ID: 192666
Location: Northern Zone, Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre  
Department: PH EY Healthy Beginning NZ
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1 
NSGEU Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 10-Dec-24

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

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About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager, Early Years, the Social Worker works as a member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team to provide a diverse range of support to families and reduce health inequities in the prenatal, postpartum and early childhood period. The Social Worker takes a person-centered and trauma and violence-informed care (TVIC) approach to perinatal mental health interventions such as screening, biopsychosocial assessment, education and brief intervention, and care planning to support perinatal mental health and wellbeing.

The Social Worker works to develop and enhance community relationships, holds knowledge of and collaborates with community partners and services. The Social Worker provides specialist consultation and support to multidisciplinary team members and holds integrated knowledge of the social, structural, emotional, psychological, and cultural determinants for well-being in the early years.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Master of Social Work (specialization in a community or perinatal mental health stream considered an asset)
• Registration with the Nova Scotia College of Social Work required
• Two years of clinical experience providing independent assessment and treatment of mental health disorders
• Experience in a community mental health setting considered an asset
• Specialized knowledge of acute and persistent mental health disorders and concurrent disorders in the perinatal period an asset
• Knowledge of evidenced based interventions such as CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and risk assessment is an asset

About You Continued

• Understanding of substance use and addiction
• Knowledge of standards that guide the profession
• Knowledge of and ability to link to community resources
• Strong focus on client care and ability to build solid client/practitioner therapeutic relationships
• Commitment to continuous quality improvement and innovation
• Commitment to promoting a culture that supports safety, ethical practices and organizational health
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to provide culturally safe, TVIC, harm reduction approaches and strengths-based care
• Demonstrated knowledge of the social and structural determinants of health as related to prenatal, postnatal and early childhood
• Knowledge of adverse childhood experiences (