Social Worker - B1 Multidisciplinary Outpatient Clinics - Prorated 2025-12183

The B1 Multidisciplinary Outpatient Clinic at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to work 0.8FTE utilizing broad SW expertise. Patients’ needs to be addressed in this outpatient area include post-operative medical follow-up, congestive heart failure, non-malignant hematology, thromboembolism, endocrine and family practice.

Summary of Duties                                                                                                   

Reporting to the Patient Care Manager, the Social Worker (SW) in the outpatient clinics works within an inter-professional team to provide safe, effective and supportive care to a variety of patient populations.

The Social Worker works within an inter-professional team to provide a full range of social work services including psychosocial assessments, resource referrals, Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care conversations, counselling and system navigation.

The SW will champion patient advocacy, while also demonstrating exceptional leadership, communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Psychosocial assessments, case management, consultation and system navigation across the continuum of care, including end of life
• Counselling individuals and/or families
• Act as a resource to the inter-professional team, patients and families regarding social work services and scope of care provided
• Maintain and upgrade skills and knowledge through continuing education.
• Good understanding and application of the SW Standards of Practice
• Actively participate in inter-professional and clinical education activities
• Actively participate in, meetings and initiatives
• Commitment to Student Education

Qualifications/Skills

• Master Degree in Social Work required
• Must be a current member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social  and in cial Service Workers in Good Standing
• Minimum two (2) years of experience working in a Hospital setting and/or

Outpatient ambulatory care setting

• Knowledge of legislation related to health care context of practice
• Experience in facilitating ACP and GoC conversation preferred
• Experience in CBT/DBT, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy

And/or Family Therapy

• Experience in System Navigation (resources and referrals)
• Good understanding of Social Determinants of Health and impact on patient

care

• Experience and commitment to quality improvement initiatives
• Excellence and demonstrated competency in the full scope of SW Practice
• Proven excellent assessment, counselling and problem solving skills essential
• Demonstrated knowledge of organizational priorities
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and set priorities in multiple clinical settings
• Superior communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, mediation

and collaborative inter-professional team skills required

• Well-established knowledge of relevant health care system processes

 and community resources required

• Superior time management, organization, and prioritization skills in addressing multiple

tasks and timelines in a fast-paced environment required

• Proven commitment to person and family-centered care essential
• Ability to balance collaborative practice with self-direction