Social Worker, Temporary Full Time, The Willow Network

Providence Care; Kingston; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Providence Care is seeking a Social Worker for a temporary full-time position focused on aiding individuals affected by sex trafficking. With a commitment to trauma-informed care and harm reduction, this role offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with community partners and utilize specialized skills to support vulnerable populations in Southeastern Ontario.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Education, mentorship and bursary opportunities

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 2 years’ experience providing direct intervention to individuals being sex trafficked.
• 2 years’ experience working with clients using a harm reduction model.
• 2 years’ experience as a community outreach clinician.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis intervention and safety planning for individuals wanting to exit sex trafficking.
• Coordinate with community partners and the Ontario Provincial Police.
• Facilitate psychoeducational groups and individual therapy.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Harm reduction

Trauma-informed practice

Counseling

Education

Master’s Degree in Social Work

Current registration with OCSWSSW

Annual Completion of OCSWSSW Continuing Competence Program

Job description

Job Code: 17259

Status: Temporary Full Time (up to 2 years)

Location: The Willow Network

Union: OPSEU 4104 Paramedical

Wage: $44.67 - $57.91

Posting Period: May 30, 2025 - June 5, 2025

The Social Worker is a member of the inter-professional Willow Network team serving Southeastern Ontario. The team provides crises intervention, assessment, consultation and treatment to individuals who are being sex trafficked or continue to experience the negative consequences of sex trafficking. Utilizing a shared care model, the team works in collaboration with community partners and police departments to improve outcomes for those involved with human trafficking.

As a member of the team, the Social Worker will utilize discipline specific skills as defined by the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Services Workers (OCSWSSW). The social worker will provide crises intervention, safety planning, assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual interpersonal problems through the use of social work knowledge, skills, interventions and strategies, to assist individuals, couples and families to achieve optimum psychosocial and social functioning. The role of this social worker position is specific to utilizing expertise in anti-human trafficking initiatives to provide wrap around supports and coordination of treatment plans to individuals being sex trafficked from multiple approaches including the harm reduction approach, recovery-oriented approach, and trauma- informed practice.

Under this portfolio, the social worker will run the Providence Care Community Programs Harm Reduction Program. Using expertise in harm reduction, the social worker will facilitate the ordering, creation, and distribution of safe use kits and Naloxone. The social worker will be in charge of ensuring the program meets the requirements laid out in the MOU’s for each region. Using previous experience working within a harm reduction engagement model, the social worker will run staff trainings in harm reduction, as requested

Education & Experience

• Master’s Degree in Social Work, required.
• Current registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, required.
• Annual Completion of OCSWSSW Continuing Competence Program to provide evidence of continuing competence to practice social work, according to the guidelines set by the College.
• 2 years’ experience providing direct intervention to individuals being sex trafficked.
• 2 years’ experience working directly with clients who are actively using substances from a harm reduction model.
• 2 years experience as a community outreach clinician
• 2 years’ experience developing treatment plans and providing therapy to individuals who have a concurrent disorder (substance use disorder and mental illness), preferred.
• 2 years’ experience working directly with individuals who have a dual diagnosis, preferred.
  
  

Position Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide crises intervention, safety planning and safe exit plans to support individuals who want to be exited from sex trafficking.
• Coordinate service delivery with community partners and the Ontario Provincial Police Human Trafficking Joint Task Force
• Provide harm reduction based, trauma-informed assessment, consultation, intervention and counseling.
• Identify and draft grant applications to support ongoing funding of the Willow Network.
• Ongoing discussions with funders to demonstrate efficacy of the program
• Work with community agencies and funders to develop and implement the “Safe Beds” anti-human trafficking initiative.
• Facilitate psychoeducational groups and/or individual therapy targeted at decreasing client’s risk of harm in the community. Meeting the client’s where they are at and providing appropriate intervention to reduce their risk of being re-trafficked.
• Utilize expertise to present on human trafficking at various conferences, functions and committees
• Participate in community development
  
  

Why Work at Providence Care Community Teams

• Providence Care offers a wide range of community services across Southeastern Ontario
• Community services striving for excellence in care, education and research
• Committed to people centred approach to care delivery
• Competitive salaries, percentage in lieu of benefits and vacation
• Corporate and service specific orientation for new hires
• Focus on Healthy Workplace and Culture of Quality
• Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Education, mentorship and bursary opportunities
• Fully affiliated with Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College and other academic institutions
• Locations in Kingston, Belleville, Brockville, Kingston, Napanee and Sharbot Lake