Registered Social Worker

Calian is proud to continue a long-standing contractual relationship with the Department of National Defence (DND) to provide healthcare services to the Canadian Armed Forces. Through the Health Care Provider Contract, Calian employs health care professionals across Canada who are integral to supporting the health and wellbeing of our military members.

Position Overview

Calian is offering an exciting full-time opportunity for a Registered Social Worker to join our team of healthcare professionals at the Canadian Armed Forces Health Services Centre in Cold Lake, Alberta. In this exclusive setting, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality clinical services to support the well-being of our military members. This unique position provides the chance to make a meaningful impact, working alongside a dedicated team in a dynamic and fulfilling environment.

This is a temporary position, but offers worklife balance including daytime hours (7.5 hour day), Monday to Friday; 37.5 hours per week.

If you have questions or would like to know more, please feel free to contact me directly at [email protected] .

Responsibilities

• Managing crisis interventions and conducting risk assessments for individuals and families.
• Conducting intakes and completing bio-psychosocial assessments for a wide range of presenting issues such as work-related stress, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, suicide ideation, relationship struggles, family stress, somatic complaints, personality disorders and PTSD.
• Providing treatment through a variety of approaches including individual therapy, couples therapy, and group treatment therapy followed by evaluation of the treatment and therapeutic outcome.
• Presenting the clients’ care with recommendations to the inter-disciplinary healthcare teams to develop an individualized treatment plan.
• Analyzing the clients’ needs and provide information and advice to them and their families related to access to appropriate services and resources.
• Facilitating educational activities and group interventions such as pre-deployment briefings, psychosocial services overview presentations, and group psycho-education sessions.
• Implementing new interventions or treatment approaches such as telemedicine and virtual reality therapy.
• Distributing local outreach material such as mental health awareness material to bases and units.
• Creating and maintaining confidential client reports on treatment services.

Qualifications

To be eligible for this position you must meet all of the following:

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Social Work from a recognized university.
• Must have a minimum of 3 years post-graduate experience with an adult population administering assessments, creating treatment plans, and delivering counselling services to individuals, couples, and groups for a range of mental illnesses.
• Registration as a Social Worker with the provincial regulatory body in the province of practice; authorization or willingness to obtain to perform psychosocial interventions

Additional Requirements

• You will be able to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level.
• Current certification or willingness to obtain CPR Level C with AED.