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The Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service is a professionally staffed, community based organization that provides 24-hour Mobile Crisis services. Additionally Crisis Management Service and Journey Home (Housing First) offer intensive case management services.
We are currently recruiting for a Crisis Management Worker. Note: this is not a summer job but is year-round. Only those available year-round need apply.
This position provides case management/service coordination for a difficult-to-engage population with serious mental illnesses/addictions and other concurrent disorders.
The work is both challenging and rewarding. Excellent benefits package after 300 hours.
Qualifications:
- Must have a professional psychiatric nursing registration with 3-5 years of experience.
- Must have a valid driver's license and computer skills.
- Must agree to a Criminal Record Check.
- Must have mental and physical capacity to effectively and safely perform in this position.
Submit cover letter, resume and two references in a Word document to:
Rita Field
Executive Director
Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service Inc.
103-506-25th St East
Saskatoon, SK S7K 4A7
Fax: (306) 664-1974
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Type of Community or Social Service
- Personal and social adjustment and health (substance abuse, gambling, behaviour disorders)
- Socio-economic needs or conditions (housing, nutrition, unemployment, financial assistance)
- Crime prevention
- Programs dealing with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Services for the homeless
- Programs dealing with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Specific Skills
- Obtain information and prepare reports or case histories
- Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
- Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs
- Conduct follow-up assessments
- Provide suicide and crisis intervention
- Resolve conflict situations
- Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses
- Provide personal services support to persons with special needs
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
- Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
Work Setting
- Suicide prevention centre
- Social service agency
- Community or neighbourhood centre
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
Security and Safety
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Driver's validity licence check
Target Groups or Clients
- Seniors
- Male
- Female
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Street population
- Persons with intellectual disabilities
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
- Persons with learning disabilities
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