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PARTNERS Family Services is accepting applications for the position of Outreach Worker. PARTNERS staff provide a safe, confidential and welcoming environment that assists individuals and families to meet their immediate and on going needs. This position is 16 hours per week and will require travel to the communities of Wakaw and Wynyard. Position is a one year term with possibility of extension commencing August 2016.
Duties include:
- Meeting with clients to determine needs
- Provide referrals for housing, addictions, mental health, domestic violence, income assistance
- Act as a service coordinator for clients accessing multiple services
-Provide advocacy for clients struggling to navigate social services programming
- Crisis intervention
Requirements:
- BSW, BISW, Addictions Counselor, Child and Youth Worker or related; OR BA in psychology, sociology or other humanities discipline
- BSW students encouraged to apply
- Experience working with vulnerable or at risk populations
-Experience collaborating and cooperative with internal and external stakeholders to ensure coordination of services to clients
- Experience working with community groups, volunteers and agencies
- Strong team work capacity, highly organized, and capable of managing varied demands
- Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and professional demeanour
- Excellent writing skills, time management, communication and file management skills
- Computer competencies
- Certified in First Aid and CPR
- Use of personal vehicle including 2mil in liability insurance
-Clear Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector screening
For additional information, please email hkennedy@partnersfamilyservices.ca. No phone calls please.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Willing to travel
- Valid driver's licence
- Public transportation is not available
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Registered Clinical Counsellor
- Membership with a provincial association for marriage and family therapy
- First Aid Certificate
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
Additional Skills
- Use computer applications
- Recruit and select staff
- Perform administrative tasks
- Participate in fundraising activities
Specific Skills
- Write reports (assessment, follow-up, progress, court reports, etc.)
- Provide public education
- Interview clients
- Evaluate clients' progress in resolving identified problems and movement towards defined objectives
- Evaluate effectiveness of counselling programs and interventions
- Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them
- Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
- Assess clients' problems
- Identify additional/alternative services and provide referrals
- Liaise with communities
- Facilitate groups
- Teach life skills
Work Setting
- Community service organization
Client Population
- Adults
- Families
- Couples
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Females
- Males
- Homeless
Work Location Information
- Rural community
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child welfare check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
Area of Counselling Specialization
- Substance abuse
- Stress management
- Sexual abuse and trauma recovery
- Personal growth and self-development
- Mediation
- Life transitions
- Family and marriage
- Crisis intervention
- Conflict resolution
- Career
- Anger management
- Anxiety/panic
- Cross cultural issues
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