Wellness Supports Social Worker

This place is part of the Non-Educational Employees Affiliation (NASA).

This place has a time period size of 1 yr plus a day, and presents a complete advantages bundle which might be considered on our Advantages Overview web page .

Location- This function is in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus Edmonton.

Working for the College of Alberta

The College of Alberta acknowledges that we’re positioned on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to complement our vibrant group.

The College of Alberta is teeming with change makers, group builders, and world shapers who lead with goal each day. We’re house to greater than 40,000 college students in 200+ undergraduate and 500+ graduate packages, over 13,000 school and employees, 260,000 alumni worldwide and have been acknowledged as one among Canada’s Greenest Employers for over a decade.

Your work may have a significant affect on a captivating cross part of individuals—from our college students and stakeholders, to our famend researchers and innovators who’re fairly actually curing ailments, making discoveries and producing options that make the world more healthy, safer, stronger, and extra simply.

Working for the Division

We need to welcome you right into a caring office tradition, one which endeavors to help your development and studying throughout the campus group. As a part of the Workplace of the Dean of College students, the Wellness Helps staff engages folks on campus by strengthening particular person and group psychological well being and wellbeing, offering help, connection, training and selection.

The staff strives to offer holistic, inclusive, and equitable help, together with:

• Free psychological well being abilities coaching for college students and employees
• Collaborative initiatives that problem stigma round wellness, present data, have interaction in dialogue that encourages motion
• Particular person help to bridge gaps and join college students with assets that present college students with ongoing psychological well being help and referrals to different psychological well being assets
• Facilitated peer-to-peer and group connections 
• Volunteer and outreach alternatives
• Well being and wellness exercise funding 
• Wellness data, analysis, occasions and actions
• Strengthen and help campus communities and members to determine potential challenges and alternatives collectively.

On this part-time place you’ll work with our Wellness Helps 1:1 Social Employees out of one among our places of work within the U of A’s College students’ Union Constructing.

We strongly encourage people from fairness deserving group(s) and intersecting identities to use.

Place 

Wellness Helps is dedicated to advocating and supporting the wellbeing of our campus group – college students, employees, and college. Our program actions, providers, and initiatives are designed to contribute to a tradition of wellness on the College of Alberta whereby members of the campus group work collectively to prioritize wellness in campus insurance policies, practices, and programming. The unit has three major capabilities that embrace providing 1:1 scholar help, coaching and capability constructing round matters of psychological well being, and implementing programming and occasions that improve wellness on our campus.     

Reporting to the Social Employee Group Lead, the Social Employee is an integral member of the Wellness Helps staff.  The Social Employee makes use of a case administration method to offer these U of A college students coping with psychological well being considerations and different complicated challenges with fast entry to an preliminary evaluation and navigation to acceptable assets, no matter their severity. Core obligations of this place embrace early identification of scholars who’re struggling, making certain well timed entry to acceptable helps as required, and enhancing the continuity of care acquired through the college and better group social and psychological well being system. The Social Employee works with an interdisciplinary staff together with however not restricted to campus employees, school, psychologists, psychiatrists, social employees, consumption nurses, pharmacists, and household physicians.

Duties 

• Present in-person and telehealth/digital consumption appointments to college students with quite a lot of wants and priorities
• Collaborate with Wellness Helps staff members, campus and group companions to determine wants associated to scholar psychological well being or broad psychological well being initiatives
• Conducting service provision utilizing the social work skilled scope of observe together with psychosocial interventions
• Following an interdisciplinary care mannequin that includes collaborative care between Well being and Wellness Providers staff members and group stakeholders akin to psychiatrists, psychologists, College Well being Heart household physicians, Residence Providers, Worldwide College students Heart, Serving to People at Threat, and better group help; sometimes delivering displays or trainings to members of campus group
• Create and ship instructional, collaborative, or consultative providers (together with displays or trainings) associated to scholar psychological well being or broad psychological well being initiatives
• Sustaining data in accordance with acceptable laws, college insurance policies, and Alberta Faculty of Social Employees (ACSW) tips
• Contributing to campus training and consciousness of the Wellness Helps Group and better Workplace of the Dean of College students providers by displays and knowledge sharing alternatives
• Upholding sturdy partnerships and optimistic working relationships with all related campus and better group providers to take care of direct, seamless connections to all appropriate assets
• Relying on the candidate, we’re excited for the chance to develop particular providers to help college students with intersecting identities. Examples would possibly embrace a trans candidate facilitating a supportive drop in group for gender transition help, or a candidate fluent in Mandarin or one other second language, working carefully with campus companions to attach and help worldwide college students. These alternatives can be tailor-made to match the precise candidate and their areas of ardour or curiosity

Minimal {Qualifications}

• Bachelor of Social Work Diploma is required, with consideration given to lived expertise and work expertise
• Confirmed expertise and/or experience within the areas of group social work, disaster intervention, prevention work, supportive counselling/advising, and interdisciplinary staff navigation
• Member in good standing with the Alberta Faculty of Social Employees (ACSW)
• 3 to five years of relevant social work expertise and/or outreach expertise in a fast-paced change-oriented surroundings or at an grownup/post-secondary establishment
• Robust interpersonal and relationship-building abilities, with confirmed skill to determine trusting relationships
• Robust relationship constructing abilities
• Wonderful communication abilities (verbal and written)
• Expertise with psychological well being helps, suicide prevention, and group constructing are essential
• Expertise in supporting various communities and populations
• Expertise offering disaster and short-term counseling help, data and referrals
• Means to work with confidential data in an expert and delicate method
• Means to work independently and cohesively inside a multidisciplinary staff surroundings
• Means to understand the complexity of psychological well being, psychological well being stigma, and support-seeking behaviour from an intersectional lens that’s trauma-informed and culturally humble 

Most well-liked {Qualifications}

• Means to speak in a second language an asset
• Expertise, and extra specialised coaching, working with various and fairness looking for teams like Indigenous peoples, racialized minorities, LGBTQ2S of us, folks with disabilities, and newcomers and/or Worldwide college students
• Information of college and group helps and assets an asset
• Understanding of the post-secondary surroundings and expertise
• Consolation working with know-how like Microsoft Workplace and Google Apps, and Digital Administration methods for documentation 

On the College of Alberta, we’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and accessible hiring course of for all candidates. For those who require lodging to take part within the interview course of, please tell us on the time of reserving your interview and we are going to make each effort to accommodate your wants.

Notice: On-line purposes are accepted till midnight Mountain Normal Time of the cut-off date.

We thank all candidates for his or her curiosity; nonetheless, solely these people chosen for an interview will probably be contacted.