Social Worker & Social Services Worker

Canadian Shield Health Care Services; Greater Sudbury; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care service in Greater Sudbury is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to provide confidential mental health and addiction counselling. This role requires a diploma or degree in Social Work, emphasizing a holistic and trauma-informed approach to client support. Candidates should have strong assessment and communication skills, with a focus on maintaining wellness and effective relationships with clients and families. Flexibility in hours, including evenings and weekends, is essential for this position.

Qualifications

• Minimum diploma in Social Services Work or Bachelor of Social Work required.
• 1 year of recent direct counselling experience preferred.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed care and crisis intervention is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health and addiction counselling and support.
• Maintain appropriate client documentation and relationships with agencies.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate care plans.

Skills

Assessment skills

Written and verbal communication

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Education

Diploma in Social Services Work

Bachelor of Social Work Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Summary

As part of the Canadian Shield Health Care Services team, the Social Worker is responsible for providing confidential mental health and addiction counselling, education, life-coaching and support to clients and staffs of Canadian Shield Health Care Services. This position operates from a holistic and trauma-informed perspective, is sensitive to the tradition and cultures of many peoples, and provides services required to assist all clients and staffs in attaining and maintaining the highest level of wellness possible.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Casual

Salary: Ranges from $30.00 – $40.00 per hour, depending on experience

✓ Provides direct counselling services such as intake, assessment, and holistic treatment planning as appropriate; consultation/liaison with community agencies, schools, hospitals, and other community services as needed or required.

✓ Conducts individual counselling from a trauma-informed perspective.

✓ Maintains basic knowledge of psychotropic medications as prescribed by a physician, maintaining an awareness of the effects of such medications.

✓ Maintains appropriate client documentation.

✓ Promotes and maintains effective working relationships with clients and families, physicians, schools and hospitals to coordinate services, secure input, cooperation, improve client outcomes and provide community support.

✓ Minimum diploma in Social Services Work, or a Bachelor of Social Work Degree (or other Human Services related field) from an accredited college or university and registered with a professional licensing body.

✓ 1 year (recent) direct counselling experience; experience in community development, family support work, group facilitation and/or advocacy is an asset.

✓ Experience in crisis intervention is an asset.

✓ Knowledge of, and demonstrated working experience in, the comprehensive issues relating to substance use and misuse, mental health issues, concurrent disorders, grief/loss, suicide ideation/intent, and family violence.

✓ Demonstrated capacity to develop, implement and evaluate care plans and outcomes of same.

✓ Strong assessment skills relevant to the context of wellness from a holistic approach.

✓ Familiarity with both abstinence and harm reduction model.

✓ Ability to promote healthy lifestyles and healthy choices through personal role-modelling with resources/agencies and other stakeholders.

✓ Familiarity with the concepts of providing services as a life-coach.

✓ Ensure provision of services to clients is completed in a safe environment regardless of location (i.e., home visit, satellite stations or main office).

✓ Strong written and verbal communications skills, which includes correspondence, case notes and report writing.

✓ Ability to work independently and within a multi-disciplinary team.

✓ Demonstrates strong interpersonal, organizational and time management skills.

✓ Functional in Microsoft Office: MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher.

✓ Ability to work flexible hours that may include some evenings/weekends.

✓ Hold a valid drivers’ license with a clean drivers’ abstract.

✓ This is a designated position of trust working directly with vulnerable persons; this requires a criminal record search – to include vulnerable sector – with clearance is required.

Greater Sudbury