Social Worker II
Your Opportunity:
Are you a passionate Social Worker who believes in recovery, connection, and meaningful change? Do you enjoy blending individual support, group-based work, and coordinated system navigation? If so, we’d love to meet you. The Hope and Wellness Team at EHWC is excited to offer a Temporary Social Worker II (SWII) opportunity supporting both Hope & Wellness and the CORE (Care, Outreach, Regulation, and Engagement) Team. This role is ideal for a clinician who values variety, collaboration, and working within a supportive interdisciplinary team focused on emotion regulation and recovery-oriented care. EHWC is a dynamic mental health service delivering trauma informed, responsive care to individuals experiencing emotion dysregulation, complex mental health needs, and challenges engaging with services. This SWII role supports clients both virtually and in-person, using a case management and skills based approach to help clients build emotion regulation skills, clarify goals, and move forward in their recovery. Key Responsibilities Include: Supporting clients with emotion regulation using CBT/DBT informed strategies. Assisting with group based services, including information sessions, prep series, and goal setting groups. Supporting referral review, care coordination, and AMH pathway navigation. Consultation, behavior plan navigation, and coordinated care. Assisting with risk assessment, safety planning, and ongoing recovery planning. Engaging in interdisciplinary collaboration, training, and reflective practice. This temporary role offers an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled compassionate team, where clinical growth is supported, and your contribution truly matters.
Description:
As a Social Worker II, you will be a member of an inter-disciplinary team and provides a range of social work services to patients and their families. Your services may include: psychosocial assessment, resource-based interventions, individual, group and family treatment, risk screening, counselling, case management and coordination, transition or discharge planning, and prevention, promotion and public awareness activities.
- Classification: Social Worker II
- Union: HSAA Prof/Tech
- Unit and Program: Edmonton Hope and Wellness
- Primary Location: Edmonton Comm Health Hub North
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 08-JUN-2026
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 18-JUN-2026
- Temporary End Date: 06-JAN-2027
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $42.14
- Maximum Salary: $56.02
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Completion of bachelor's degree in Social Work. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).
Additional Required Qualifications:Highly skilled with risk assessment and management, including assessment and monitoring of chronic suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury, development of safety plans, and coordination/liaison with urgent/crisis services and group experience. Previous experience in urgent/crisis services and inpatient psychiatric settings is an asset. Exceptional therapy relationship skills, including advanced abilities to establish rapport, therapeutic alliance, trust and collaboratively work through relationship impasses. Highly empathic and validating, while also having the capacity to be firm and set appropriate limits/boundaries in the therapeutic relationship. The successful candidate will be highly self-aware of own reactions and biases; and be open to seeking consultation/supervision from team members and Clinical Supervisor. The SWII will be able to demonstrate excellent self-care. Must have experience and skill with assessing and treating multiple comorbidities of emotion dysregulation, including depression, anxiety, and addiction, as well as experience addressing significant social issues, including housing, finances, work, and social role functioning. The successful candidate must have strong case formulation skills and experience with developing treatment plans for complex addiction and mental health cases. Experienced with motivational enhancement, including goal-setting and motivational interviewing. Candidate must possess valid driver’s license, NVCI, BLS.
Preferred Qualifications:The suitable candidate will have considerable experience and proficiency with case management and system navigation. Experience with advocacy and providing education to staff and community groups is an asset. Minimum of 2 years mental health experience in comprehensive mental health assessment and the provision of case management and psychotherapy.
