Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada’s hospital for children and youth with disabilities and developmental differences. Serving more than 9,000 families annually through inpatient and outpatient programs and services, our teams are helping to shape the future of pediatric disability care.
As a top 40 Canadian research hospital and academic hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Holland Bloorview integrates care, teaching, research and scholarship to advance practice and improve the lives of children and youth with disabilities and developmental differences. All clinical staff are expected to contribute to the academic agenda through one or more of the following activities: supervising students, teaching, academic service, scholarship and/or research.
Holland Bloorview has achieved 100 per cent in four successive surveys by Accreditation Canada, an unprecedented achievement in safety. We are also proud to be recognized among Greater Toronto’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People and Canada’s Best Diversity Employers.
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Job Position
We are seeking a Social Worker to join the interdisciplinary Communication, Learning and Behaviour (CLB) Program and Restrictive Eating Clinic teams. This is a temporary full-time position (1.0 FTE) for 12 months consisting of 0.6 FTE within the CLB Program and 0.4 FTE within the Restrictive Eating Clinic.
The CLB Program provides autism diagnostic and follow-up services for children and youth and their families. The Restrictive Eating Clinic provides interdisciplinary assessment and intervention services for children and youth with autism and complex restrictive eating and feeding challenges. This role will support children, youth and families through counselling, resource navigation, service coordination, and advocacy, while addressing barriers to participation in care and supporting caregiver well-being.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to identify family strengths, support needs, barriers to treatment engagement, and social determinants of health.
- Provide individual and family counselling and psychotherapy (as needed) to support caregiver well-being, family functioning, and participation in treatment.
- Provide counselling and coaching to caregivers to enhance engagement in caregiver-mediated intervention and support the implementation of treatment recommendations within the home environment.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to identify psychosocial factors that may contribute to feeding and restrictive eating challenges and address these factors.
- Assess and address social determinants of health, including financial stressors, food insecurity, housing instability, access to services, caregiver mental health, and other factors that may affect treatment participation and outcomes.
- Provide resource navigation and service coordination for families requiring community-based supports and services.
- Support transition planning including facilitating connections to community-based health, developmental, and social service providers.
- Advocate for children, youth, and families to improve access to appropriate services and supports.
- Participate in team consultations, case conferences, and interdisciplinary care planning.
- Document assessments, interventions, and workload statistics in accordance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
- Something about contributing to the academic agenda
Additional Qualifications
- Demonstrated counselling experience with children, youth, caregivers, and families in a health care, community, or mental health setting.
- Knowledge of evidence-informed counselling approaches, including strengths-based family-centred, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive practices
- Training and experience utilizing evidence informed therapeutic modalities such as ACT, solutions focused .
- Experience supporting caregivers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Ontario Autism Program and community resources available to children, youth, and families.
- Experience providing service navigation and coordinating access to community-based supports.
- Demonstrated understanding of social determinants of health and their impact on child and family well-being, with the ability to integrate this perspective into clinical assessment, intervention planning, and family-centred care.
- Experience working with families presenting with complex psychosocial, mental health, andsystem-navigation needs is preferred.
- Experience working with children and youth with feeding difficulties, restrictive eating, ARFID, or related developmental and behavioural concerns is considered an asset.
