Certified Social Worker

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 344217363
  • Posted Date: Oct 2, 2024
  • Closing Date: Nov 18, 2024
  • Company: Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre
  • Category: Healthcare & Social Workers
  • Business Location:Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
  • Total Views: 213
  • Duration: 9 calendar days (8 business days)
  • Last Updated: 1 week ago
  • Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/344217363/ontario/thunder-bay/certified-social-worker/
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Job Details

  • Experience: Not required
  • Opening Positions: 1
  • Remuneration: $60,000 annually / 35 hours per week
  • Commencement Date: As soon as possible
  • Education: College certificate or diploma more than 2 years

Job Description

Tasks

  • Interview client individually, in families, or in groups, to assess their situation and problems to determine the types of services required
  • Supervise other social workers, paid para-professional staff, student trainees and volunteers
  • Perform administrative tasks
  • Provide counsel and therapy to help clients resolve social and personal problems
  • Plan programs of assistance for clients
  • Refer clients to agencies that provide financial assistance, legal aid, housing, medical treatment and other services
  • Provide public education and consultation regarding counselling services, issues and methods
  • Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team of professionals working with a client group
  • Advocate on client’s behalf in courts or at hearings
  • Lobby for solutions to problems affecting client groups
  • Conduct social research
  • Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and the patient’s outcomes
  • Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs

Supervision

  • 1 to 2 people
  • 3-4 people
  • 5-10 people
  • 11-15 people
  • 16-20 people

Experience and specialization

Target audience

  • Adolescents
  • Females
  • Males
  • Minority group
  • People with personal or social adjustment difficulty
  • Persons with an intellectual disability
  • Family
  • Young adults
  • Aboriginal groups
  • Young offenders

Policy and program experience

  • Mental health

Social work specialization

  • Child welfare
  • Community development
  • Education and training
  • Health
  • Personal adjustment
  • Socio-economic needs or conditions

Area of specialization

  • Cultural

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Mental health first aid Certificate
  • Provincial certificate of registration
  • Membership in a provincial association of social workers
  • Membership with the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW)