Social Worker III

Your Opportunity:

The Pediatric Community Rehabilitation (PCR) Program provides services to children, youth and families throughout Calgary and surrounding communities. PCR is a dynamic, community-based program that supports participation, inclusion, and quality of life for children with a wide range of developmental, physical, and psychosocial needs. Working within an interdisciplinary team, the Social Worker III Clinical Lead plays a key leadership role in supporting high-quality, family-centred care while advancing professional social work practice across the program. This newly established position offers an exciting opportunity to combine direct clinical practice with clinical leadership. As the Social Worker III Clinical Lead, you will provide advanced clinical leadership, consultation, mentorship, and supervision to social work staff and students while maintaining a clinical caseload. You will support clinicians in delivering evidence-informed care, consult on complex psychosocial situations, promote professional excellence, and foster collaborative practice across teams and service partners. You will contribute to the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of services that meet the evolving needs of children, youth, and families. Working closely with operational leaders, clinical leaders, community agencies, and interdisciplinary colleagues, you will support service excellence, quality improvement initiatives, and innovative approaches to care delivery. You will play a critical role in strengthening staff competence, supporting change initiatives, facilitating professional development, and promoting safe, effective, and equitable service delivery. The successful candidate brings strong clinical expertise in pediatric social work, a passion for leadership and mentorship, and a commitment to patient- and family-centred care.

Description:

As a Social Worker III, you will perform either advanced level assessment and treatment or act as a clinical lead. You will work with or within teams to provide health care services for patients with complex and multidimensional medical, psychosocial, environmental and instrumental needs. You will provide advanced clinical services, consultation to the interprofessional team and patients/families and supervision of students and team members as assigned. You may also act as a clinical lead providing leadership in the planning, development, and delivery of services in a specific area, as well as staff development, quality improvement and evaluation or research activities as identified by the needs of the service area(s).

Required Qualifications:

Master's degree in Social Work. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).

Additional Required Qualifications:

Master of Social Work degree. Active registration in good standing with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW). A minimum of three years of recent clinical experience working with pediatric populations. Demonstrated leadership experience including coaching, mentorship, clinical consultation, staff support, teaching, or supervision of students and/or clinicians. Extensive knowledge of child, youth and family-centred practice, psychosocial assessment, care planning and complex clinical intervention. Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to establish collaborative partnerships with families, interdisciplinary team members, community agencies and stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound clinical judgment, manage competing priorities and effectively support change initiatives. Demonstrated commitment to evidence-informed practice, professional leadership development, quality improvement and the delivery of safe, high-quality care. Experience supporting complex cases involving multiple systems, vulnerable populations and community resources is required. Proficiency with electronic documentation systems and Microsoft Office applications is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working in community-based pediatric rehabilitation. Advanced knowledge of children's rehabilitation services, community supports and social determinants of health affecting children, youth and families. Experience leading program development. Experience supervising students and supporting staff development. Previous experience providing clinical leadership.