Community And Social Services Worker

Community And Social Services Worker

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre
620 Victoria Avenue East suite Second Floor, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7C 1A9
Job Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
Term of Employment: Full-Time
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Job URL: https://newworkers.ca/jobs/ontario/thunder-bay/631590449/community-and-social-services-worker/
Full-Time
Application end: Feb 11, 2025 Shortlist
Job Description

Tasks

  • Interview inmates to assess adjustment problems
  • Prepare reports or case histories
  • Administrative and office activities
  • Appraise clients’ needs or eligibility for specific services
  • Assess offenders’ prospects for successful reintegration into the community
  • Perform administrative tasks
  • Plan rehabilitation programs with offenders, establishing rules of conduct, goals and objectives
  • Implement life skills workshops
  • Refer offenders to community and social services programs
  • Liaise with the inmates’ families and contacts in the community
  • Assess client’s relevant skill strengths and development needs
  • Conduct follow-up assessments
  • Develop, co-ordinate and implement the delivery of specific services within the community
  • Housekeeping activities
  • Assist offenders in pre-release and release planning
  • Implement behaviour management programs
  • Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
  • Develop service intervention logic models and outcome measures
  • Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
  • Screen, recruit and train volunteers and support staff
  • Accompany clients to appointments and social outings

Supervision

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

Experience and specialization

Target audience

  • Aboriginal groups
  • Females
  • Males
  • Persons with an intellectual disability
  • Persons with learning disabilities
  • Persons with mental health disabilities
  • Persons with physical disabilities
  • Young offenders

Area of work experience

  • Community service organization
  • Specification or technical writing

Area of specialization

  • Legal services
  • Cultural

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Cultural Awareness Training
  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate

Benefits

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

Other benefits

  • Other benefits