Union: CUPE Hillcrest
Number of Vacancies: 1
New or Replacement Positions: Replacement
Site: Hillcrest Reactivation Centre - 47 Austin Terrace, Toronto, ON M5R 1Y8
Department: Transitional Care Program
Reports to: Program Services Manager
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Wage Range: $56.40 per hour (start rate is non-negotiable)
Shifts: Monday to Friday
Status: Temporary, Full-Time (up to 6 months with possible extension)
Closing Date: April 30, 2026
Position Summary
Hillcrest Reactivation Centre is a 75-bed community based reactivation Centre, part of the Community Transitional Care Programs within the TCLHIN. Operating under the Home and Community Care Act, Hillcrest offers a short period of reactivation to clients who are ALC or at risk of ALC, supporting their return home.
Duties
In the provision of patient and non-patient care activities, the primary responsibilities of the Social Worker include:
- Innovative application of social work processes that assist patients with psychosocial challenges and to optimize client progress in rehabilitation through the continuum
- Providing comprehensive psychosocial assessments and intervention
- Providing educational and supportive counselling services; providing service based on individual, family and group practice models
- Discharging planning, population health advocacy, community services linkage
- Collaborating with the inter-professional team and community-based service providers
- Advocating, mediating and resolving conflict
- Participating in professional, program and hospital development
- Willingness to provide field practicum Instruction to Social Work students
- Participating in current and future program development, quality initiatives and research activities
- Complying with, and commitment to, patient safety responsibilities and corresponding hospital plans, policies and procedures in order to ensure a safe environment for patients.