Job Description

The Social Work and Discharge Planning team consists of staff that provide scope of practice social work and discharge planning for all four sites of Halton Healthcare (including the Burlington Satellite Dialysis Program). 

The successful candidate will work within a fast-paced environment as a collaborative team member of an interdisciplinary team, supporting in-patient units to address high priority discharge barriers. Using critical thinking and working with the interdisciplinary team, the Discharge Planner collaboratively formulates, facilitates and coordinates discharge plans focused on the needs and goals of the patient and their family system. The Discharge planner understands the Flow and Capacity challenges of a hospital system and works to achieve that the patients are in the right place, at the right time, receiving the right care.