Social Worker

Union: Non-Union
New or Replacement role: New
Site: Toronto General Hospital
Department: Blood Disorders Program
Reports to: Nurse Manager
Salary: $43.47 - $54.34 per hour
Hours: 37.5 Hours per Week
Shifts: Days
Status: Permanent Full Time
Closing Date: August 4, 2026

Job Summary

The Social Worker for UHN’s Blood Disorders Program will primarily support adult outpatients in the Red Blood Cell Disorders Clinic, including patients living with hemoglobinopathies such as Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to provide psychosocial assessment, counselling, advocacy, system navigation, resource coordination, and support for patients and families. This role requires a strong understanding of health equity, social justice, and the structural barriers that affect patients living with chronic and complex blood disorders.

Duties

• Collaborate with a core interdisciplinary team to support patients living with hemoglobinopathies, including Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia.
• Demonstrate an excellent understanding of oppression through an intersectional lens, including but not limited to discrimination, racism, Anti-Black racism, ableism, disablement, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and the impacts of poverty and social exclusion.
• Demonstrate experience working with diverse patient communities to address inequities, improve patient experience, and support improved health and psychosocial outcomes.
• Strong communication skills and experience applying social justice and health equity frameworks are essential.
• Assess patients to determine the need for service, identify psychosocial concerns, and formulate recommendations, treatment plans, or intervention strategies.
• Develop, implement, reassess, and modify intervention plans in collaboration with patients, family members, significant others, and the interprofessional team.
• Provide counselling, advocacy, crisis support, care coordination, and system navigation to support patients’ psychosocial functioning and overall care.
• Liaise with appropriate community agencies, social services, and health system partners.
• Complete applications for services and supports as necessary.
• Establish and maintain communication with members of the interprofessional team and community agencies to obtain, provide, or exchange information related to patients’ psychosocial functioning and care needs.
• Provide services that benefit patients, families, the hospital, and the broader community.
• Provide clinical teaching and supervision to social work students, medical students, professional colleagues at University Health Network, Faculties of Social Work, and community partners.
• Participate in relevant research, patient engagement, patient education, quality improvement initiatives, and program development activities.

• Completion of a Master’s Degree in Social Work required
• Completion of undergraduate education focusing on Social Work, Sociology, Critical Race Studies, Ethnic Studies, Disability Studies, and Gender Studies preferred
• Registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers required. Lived experience as a member of an equity-seeking group, including members of Black and Racialized communities preferred
• Skilled in providing short-term counselling and case management to meet the needs of large patient volume living with chronic illness and/or disability. Demonstrated experience in working within strengths-based, empowerment, and trauma-informed approaches preferred.
• Two to three years of experience providing social work support to clients experiencing poverty, racism, anti-Black racism, immigration and settlement, chronic health issues, disability, violence and abuse, or homelessness required
• Strong understanding of and commitment to Anti-Oppression, Anti-racism, Human Rights, and Social Justice
• Excellent advocacy skills in a social justice framework, with demonstrated experience supporting clients facing marginalization
• Excellent interpersonal, team work, time management, organizational, and problem solving skills
• Research experience/education and student education/supervision an asset
• Knowledge of policies, legislation, program's and issues related to social welfare institutions and services
• Excellent writing skills
• Knowledge of a second language an asset

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

• Competitive offer packages
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP https://hoopp.com/)
• Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

UHN uses email to communicate with selected candidates.  Please ensure you check your email regularly. At University Health Network (UHN), artificial intelligence technologies may be used to assist in the screening, assessment, and selection of candidates for this position.

Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.

UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.