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About the Role
The Department of Supportive Care at the University Health Network provides care for the whole person at all stages of illness, aiming to improve personal well-being and quality of life through psychological treatment, supportive and palliative care, and rehabilitation services. This role supports outpatients with gynecological cancers.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to evaluate the nature of the problem and the need for service.
- Assess financial need for relevant income supports and caregiver benefits.
- Formulate recommendations or treatment plans and implement the intervention plan with patients, loved ones, and the inter-disciplinary team for holistic care.
- Reassess and modify the intervention plan as required.
- Liaise with appropriate community agencies.
- Provide supportive counselling.
- Engage in advance care planning, including identification and documentation of substitute decision makers.
- Connect families/loved ones to community-based grief and bereavement supports.
- Provide rotation coverage for solid tumor patients on inpatient units.
- Perform activities required for the effective and efficient operation/maintenance of Social Work within the Department of Supportive Care.
- Perform other duties consistent with the job classification.
Requirements
- Completion of a Masters Degree in Social Work (M.S.W.).
- Membership in the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW).
- Three (3) years of related experience in outpatient and inpatient areas.
- Demonstrated mature interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills.
- Knowledge of policies, legislation, programs, and issues related to social assistance institutions and services.
- Computer proficiency required (Microsoft Office Applications).
- Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team in a health care setting.
- Experience in an acute care setting with inpatients and outpatients.
- Experience with serious illness including malignant and non-malignant illnesses preferred.
- Experience working with patients and families throughout the trajectory of care from diagnosis through to palliation is an asset.
- Experience providing grief and bereavement support preferred.
- Experience teaching and/or contributing to curriculum design is an asset.
- Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.
- All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.
- A Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate.
- UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application if any information provided is misleading, inaccurate, or incorrect.
Skills
- Psychosocial assessment
- Financial needs assessment
- Intervention planning
- Community liaison
- Supportive counselling
- Advance care planning
- Grief and bereavement support
- Microsoft Office Applications
Location
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Work Type
- Permanent Full-time
Experience Level
- Three (3) years related experience
Education Level
- Masters Degree in Social Work (M.S.W.)
Salary/Compensations
- CAD 43.47 - CAD 54.34 per hour
Benefits
- Competitive offer packages
- Member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
- Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
- Flexible work environment
- Opportunities for development and promotions
- Multiple corporate discounts (travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance)
- On-site gyms
About the Company
- UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital.
- With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre.
- As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care.
- UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine.
- UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
- UHN’s vision is to build A Healthier World.
Equal Opportunity
- UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace.
- Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.
- Applicants need to make their requirements known.