Social Worker

Job title: Social Worker

Job description: About Us

RT Medical is a patient-focused healthcare company specializing in agency staffing, home care, self-testing products ranging from pregnancy and fertility to COVID-19 and flu, and virtual care and wellness services.

For private and government-run care facilities facing staffing challenges, we offer the services of our dedicated team for staffing support.

RT Medical’s Continuous Care options provide compassionate ongoing assistance to help increase independent living at home where we offer services directly to the client.

We are committed to providing the best quality products and services to support our patients and customers in their health and wellness needs.

RT Medical is a healthcare startup specializing in telehealth treatments and medical supplies for unique conditions. We just launched Canada’s first national Post-COVID virtual clinic focusing on assessment, diagnostic work-up and supportive care for patients suffering from Post-COVID conditions.

Partnered with leading public health and Post-COVID experts across North America, our goal is to be the primary center for everything Post-COVID related in Canada. This includes curating information for both patients and healthcare providers on up-to-date treatments and other developments in the battle against Post-COVID.

With a fun, friendly and results-driven culture, working with RT Medical is an opportunity to be rewarded for your contributions to a growing startup, while helping Canadians through a patient-centered care approach.

At RT Medical, we’re committed to providing the best quality services to support our patients and customers in their health and wellness needs.

Come work as a Social Worker with RT Medical

RT Medical is looking for a Social Worker with a Master’s Degree to join our virtual clinic

As a Social Worker with our team you will:

• Work with patients in retirement homes or long-term care facilities offering virtual support services for patients and families
• Conduct comprehensive psycho-social assessments by methods such as interviewing the client, obtaining relevant information, gathering social data regarding the client’s family, environment, living situation, and financial status, and interpreting the data to therapeutically impact the client’s and family’s coping abilities and intervenes in cases of complex social-emotional or family issues.
• Provide individual, family and group counselling services by methods such as exploring emotional responses to illness/injury in order to identify problems, personal concerns and treatment objectives and to facilitate change in coping style, behaviour, attitude, feelings and adaptive responses to an adverse life event.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members
• Prepare and maintain client records by methods such as documenting client assessments, interventions, evaluations, modifications and client goals in accordance with established standards, policies and procedures
• Assisting with filling out EI and disability forms if needed
• Identify applicable community resources for clients and facilitate care throughout the continuum

What you bring

• Master’s degree in a social sciences discipline relevant to the job from a recognized program, such as Social Work, Counselling Psychology, or Clinical Psychology.
• Minimum of two (2) years of recent experience working in an interdisciplinary setting that includes experience with individuals, couples, families and group work; program and community development; adjustment and grief counselling
• As per our Standards of Practice, demonstrated aptitude and experience in brief evidence-based therapy models such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Systems Theory, Solution-Focused Therapy, Supportive Therapy, Crisis Counselling, Group Therapy and Resource Counselling.
• In good standing with either the College of Registered Psychotherapists or the College of Social Workers

You also have:

• Skilled in technology and experience with various EMR’s and Microsoft Teams
• Comfortable working remotely and in a virtual telehealth environment
• Be able to work in unique, fast-paced environments
• Broad knowledge of systems thinking as it related to social work process.
• Teach and provide effective consultation
• Experience with other health disciplines and their role in healthcare.
• Legislation and government policies and procedures that relate to the client.
• Excellent critical thinking, synthesis, organizational and decision-making skills
• High adaptability capacity
• Experience with senior patients is an asset
• Licensed in other provinces is an asset

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