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social worker

Hungry Heart Cafe & Catering
Job Description

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  • Work Term: Temporary
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 70 hours bi-weekly
  • Education: Bachelor's degree
  • Experience: 5 years or more
  • Work setting

  • Community service organization
  • Work in employer's/client's home
  • Associations and non profit organizations
  • Tasks

  • Conduct psychosocial assessments
  • 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
  • Provide mediation services
  • 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
  • Apply for social program funding
  • 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
  • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

  • Membership in a provincial association of social workers
  • Membership with the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW)
  • Target audience

  • Females
  • Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Vulnerable sector check
  • Transportation/travel information

  • Valid driver's licence
  • Own vehicle
  • Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Attention to detail
  • Large workload
  • Large caseload
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Flexibility
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Values and ethics
  • Adaptability
  • Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
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