Job Board for Vulnerable Youth
Social Worker
Posted on March 22, 2025
by Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre
Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada
Job Sector:
Healthcare & Social Workers
Term of Employment: Full-Time
Total Views: 203
Duration: 1 calendar days (0 business days)
Last Updated: 2 days ago
Job URL: https://newworkers.ca/jobs/ontario/sioux-lookout/680325365/social-worker/
Job Description
Tasks
- Evaluate the effectiveness of social programs
- Interview client individually, in families, or in groups, to assess their situation and problems to determine the types of services required
- Investigate cases of child abuse or neglect
- Take authorized protective action when necessary
- 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
- Advocate on client’s behalf in courts or at hearings
- Lobby for solutions to problems affecting client groups
- Provide consultation services to government and other organizations
- Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and the patient’s outcomes
- Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs
- Monitor and evaluate
- Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team to plan, implement, co-ordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families
- Refer clients to the appropriate external services
- Plan patient care
Experience and specialization
Target audience
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Children
- Developmentally delayed
- Elderly
- Females
- Males
- Minority group
- People with personal or social adjustment difficulty
- Persons with an intellectual disability
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Psychiatric
- Social assistance recipient
- Abused adults
- Family
Type of treatment experience
- Crisis intervention counselling
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Membership in a provincial association of social workers
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- Bonus
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
Long term benefits
- Long-term care insurance
- Maternity and parental benefits
Other benefits
- On-site amenities
- Other benefits
- Parking available
- Travel insurance
- Wellness program