Community Worker

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 481500956
  • Open Date: November 7, 2024
  • Close Date: January 21, 2025
  • Organization: ILNSA
  • Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
  • Business Location:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Total Views: 218
  • Duration: 15 calendar days (12 business days)
  • Last Updated: 2 weeks ago
  • Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/nova-scotia/halifax/481500956/community-worker/
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Job Details

  • Experience: 7 months - 1 year
  • Job Vacancies: 1
  • Compensation: $25.00 per hour / 35 hours per week
  • Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
  • Apply by: email to [email protected]
  • Education: College certificate or diploma more than 2 years

Job Description

Tasks

  • Prepare reports or case histories
  • Administrative and office activities
  • Appraise clients’ needs or eligibility for specific services
  • Assess client’s relevant skill strengths and development needs
  • Conduct follow-up assessments
  • Develop, co-ordinate and implement the delivery of specific services within the community
  • Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
  • Assist clients/guests with special needs
  • Manage knowledge
  • Record and relay information
  • Project management
  • Plan for translation and interpretation services
  • Develop teaching materials and other resources for program delivery
  • Develop promotional materials
  • Develop registration systems and information materials
  • Deliver lectures and presentations
  • Co-ordinate work activities with other departments
  • Work on reports from manual or electronic files, inventories and databases
  • Coordinate work activities to ensure projects meet deadlines and budgets

Experience and specialization

Target audience

  • Culturally diverse groups
  • Families
  • Persons who are blind/visually impaired
  • Persons who are deaf/hard of hearing
  • Persons with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
  • Persons with an intellectual disability
  • Persons with learning disabilities
  • Persons with mental health disabilities
  • Persons with physical disabilities
  • Persons with a disability

Area of specialization

  • Community services

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Community disability studies Certificate
  • Cultural Awareness Training

Benefits

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Parking available