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/
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)