Social Worker

Vanier College; Montreal; On-site; CAD 57,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanier College in Montreal seeks a Social Worker to provide prevention, screening and intervention for students facing emotional, social or academic challenges, helping them thrive academically and socially. The role reports to the Coordinator – Student Services, is a regular full-time position with a 35-hour workweek from Monday to Friday, located at Cégep Vanier and starting November 16, 2026.

Professional collaboration with health services and campus staff is essential to support student

Qualifications

• Designs and participates in screening, outreach, awareness and prevention programs focused on mental health and academic success of the student population.
• Intervenes in order to defuse crises or emergency situations and suggests avenues for resolving them.

Responsibilities

• Conducts psychosocial assessments within the framework of protection supervision of persons.
• Provides short-term counselling to a diverse set of clients dealing with various issues.
• Develops and maintains contacts with health and social services and other partner organizations.
• Collaborates with staff, faculty, and service providers as needed.

Job description

Jobcategory: Professionals

Department: Services for Students

ImmediateSupervisor: Anja Vroomen

Positionstatus: Regular, Full-Time

Contractlength: Permanent

Worklocation: Cégep Vanier

Workschedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (35 hrs/week)

Externalposting start date: October 22, 2026

External posting end date & time: October 28, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

Salaryscale: $56,670 - $100,410

Expectedstart date: November 16, 2026

Job title: Social Worker

Description

Reportingto the Coordinator – Student Services, the Social Worker provides prevention,screening and intervention with students who are experiencing or are likely toexperience emotional, social, academic or family problems to enable them toachieve their goals through academic success, social and emotional adjustmentand integration into college life.

Morespecifically, but not limited to, the Social Worker:

• Conducts a psychosocial assessment of a personwithin the framework of the protection supervision of persons (this activity isreserved exclusively for social workers);
• Provides short-term counselling to a diverse setof clients dealing with various issues;
• Arranges activities designed to ensure thatstudents maximize their potential, particularly in their personal, family andsocial life;
• Designs and participates in screening, outreach,awareness and prevention programs focused on issues related to mental healthand academic success of the student population;
• Develops and maintains contacts withrepresentatives of the health and social services network and other partnerorganizations in their own area of competence;
• Intervenes in order to defuse crises or emergencysituations and suggests avenues for resolving them;
• Collaborates with staff and faculty, as well asservice providers or other organizations as needed;
• Attends Counselling team meetings andparticipates in case studies within multidisciplinary teams;
• Prepares and updates records adhering to thestandards of their profession and the College’s by-laws.

Otherrelated tasks which fall within the scope of the classification of thisposition may be assigned.

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (35 hours per week)

Classification: Travailleur ou travailleuse social (SocialWorker)