Social Worker - Veterans Centre - Temporary Part-Time 2025-14588
About the role
This position will be for 2 days per week, from September 2025-March 2026.
Summary of Duties
To provide a full range of Social Work services to patients and families in the Short Term Complex Support and Transitional Care Program. This includes psycho-social assessments, counselling to patients and families, discharge planning, crisis intervention, linkage to community resources, and team consultation.
Qualifications/Skills
- Masters Degree in Social Work
- Member in good standing of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
- Experience working in a health care setting (preferably 2 years)
- Experience with the health care system with discharge planning and community resources
- Familiarity with issues of capacity and consent
- In-depth understanding of the Sunnybrook Discharge policy and its application
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to be a team player as well as self-directed
- Cognitive support experience required
- Excellent assessment, interviewing and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Superior ability to manage multiple tasks and set priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Commitment to student education
About Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
From our beginnings as a hospital for Canadian veterans, Sunnybrook has flourished into a fully affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Toronto, evolving to meet the needs of our growing community.
Today, with 1.3 million patient visits each year, Sunnybrook has established itself across three campuses and is home to Canada's largest trauma centre.
Sunnybrook's groundbreaking research changes the way patients are treated around the world. Our over 200 scientists and clinician-scientists conduct more than $100 million of breakthrough research each year. Tomorrow, we will discover ways to treat the untreatable.
Our mission is to care for our patients and their families when it matters most.
Our vision is to invent the future of health care.
Our values are: excellence, collaboration, accountability, respect and engagement.
See Sunnybrook's ambitious plan to invent the future of health care: sunnybrook.ca/strategicplan
Social Worker - Veterans Centre - Temporary Part-Time 2025-14588
About the role
This position will be for 2 days per week, from September 2025-March 2026.
Summary of Duties
To provide a full range of Social Work services to patients and families in the Short Term Complex Support and Transitional Care Program. This includes psycho-social assessments, counselling to patients and families, discharge planning, crisis intervention, linkage to community resources, and team consultation.
Qualifications/Skills
- Masters Degree in Social Work
- Member in good standing of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
- Experience working in a health care setting (preferably 2 years)
- Experience with the health care system with discharge planning and community resources
- Familiarity with issues of capacity and consent
- In-depth understanding of the Sunnybrook Discharge policy and its application
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to be a team player as well as self-directed
- Cognitive support experience required
- Excellent assessment, interviewing and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Superior ability to manage multiple tasks and set priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Commitment to student education
About Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
From our beginnings as a hospital for Canadian veterans, Sunnybrook has flourished into a fully affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Toronto, evolving to meet the needs of our growing community.
Today, with 1.3 million patient visits each year, Sunnybrook has established itself across three campuses and is home to Canada's largest trauma centre.
Sunnybrook's groundbreaking research changes the way patients are treated around the world. Our over 200 scientists and clinician-scientists conduct more than $100 million of breakthrough research each year. Tomorrow, we will discover ways to treat the untreatable.
Our mission is to care for our patients and their families when it matters most.
Our vision is to invent the future of health care.
Our values are: excellence, collaboration, accountability, respect and engagement.
See Sunnybrook's ambitious plan to invent the future of health care: sunnybrook.ca/strategicplan