Description
Touchwood Child and Family Services Inc. requires a Child and Family Services Worker to be responsible for helping individuals, families and the community develop skills and acquire resources needed to enhance and improve social functioning. The Child and Family Services Worker will also provide counselling, therapy and resources for social and community support services in an effort to achieve this goal. this goal requires the individual to assess and interview clients, record accurate and detailed case notes and develop and maintain sustainable relationships with other professionals in the community. Other duties may be assigned as required.
Skills and Abilities
Work Setting
- Social and family service agency
Essential Skills
- Significant use of memory
- Continuous learning
- Computer use
- Finding information
- Job task planning and organizing
- Critical thinking
- Decision making
- Problem solving
- Working with others
- Oral communication
- Writing
- Document use
- Reading text
Area of Social Work Specialization
- Child welfare
- Community development
Additional Skills
- Perform administrative tasks
Specific Skills
- Investigate cases of child abuse or neglect and take authorized protective action when necessary
- Interview clients to assess their situation and determine the types of services required and eligibility
- Plan programs of assistance for clients
- Provide public education and consultation regarding counselling services, issues and methods
- Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team working with a client group
- Act as an advocate for client groups in the community
Client Population
- Child
- Developmentally delayed
- Elderly
- Female
- Male
- Mentally impaired
- Social assistance recipient
- Adult
- Adolescents
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
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