Social Worker - Inpatient Stroke Rehab, Brain Program, TR-UC

UHN is Canada’s No. 1 hospital and the world’s No. 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.

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POSITION: In the provision of patient and non-patient care activities, the primary responsibilities of the Social Worker include: innovative application of social work processes that assist patients with psychosocial challenges and to optimize client progress in rehabilitation through the continuum; providing comprehensive psychosocial assessments and intervention; providing educational and supportive counselling services; providing service based on individual, family and group practice models; discharging planning, population health advocacy, community services linkage; collaborating with the inter-professional team and community-based service providers; advocating, mediating and resolving conflict; participating in professional, program and hospital development; willingness to provide field practicum Instruction to Social Work students; participating in current and future program development, quality initiatives and research activities; complying with, and commitment to, patient safety responsibilities and corresponding hospital plans, policies and procedures in order to ensure a safe environment for patients.

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