Social Worker I (Acute Care)

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby.

We are currently looking to fill a Part-Time opportunity for a Social Worker I (Acute Care) at Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C.

The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

• Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces
• New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine and mental health patients
• New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces
• New acute care tower with 160 beds
• New medical imaging department
• New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology and plastics specialties.

Come work with us!

Joining the Fraser Health team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields, career growth and advancement, a competitive compensation package (including four weeks of vacation to start, comprehensive health benefits, and pension plan), and the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care.

Under general supervision, and within an interdisciplinary environment, provides psychosocial assessments; identifies patient/family issues; formulates a treatment and sets goals/objectives for assigned clients.

Education and Experience

Master's degree in Social Work from an approved school of Social Work, plus two (2) years' recent, related clinical experience. Current full registration with the BC College of Social Workers.

Skills and Abilities

• Comprehensive knowledge of systems theory and an ability to apply this theory to practice, Social Work assessment and intervention.
• Fully developed and information seeking skills that promote communication and lead to a co-operative approach to problem solving within an interdisciplinary setting.
• Comprehensive knowledge of developmental stages in the individual and family life cycle and of psychosocial issues that may occur in response to changing health and dependency needs.
• Ability to establish rapport with clients and family members in order to explore issues that are beyond the initial presented concerns.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to operate related equipment.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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