Employment Information
- Post ID: 391745231
- Open Date: June 10, 2025
- Close Date: August 8, 2025 (open for 58 days)
- Organization: Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre
- Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
- Business Location:Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
- Total Views: 237
- Ad Active Duration: 5 calendar days (4 business days)
- Last Updated: 6 days ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/thunder-bay/391745231/addiction-social-worker/
Job Details
- Experience: 3 years - 5 years
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $65,000 to $70,000 annually (To be negotiated) / 35 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
- Apply by: email to [email protected], by mail
- Education: College certificate or diploma more than 2 years
Job Description
Tasks
- Conduct psychosocial assessments
- Evaluate the effectiveness of social programs
- Interview client individually, in families, or in groups, to assess their situation and problems to determine the types of services required
- Prepare detailed plans for clients returning home after a stay in a rehabilitation centre
- Provide mediation services
- Supervise other social workers, paid para-professional staff, student trainees and volunteers
- Perform administrative tasks
- Plan programs of assistance for clients
- Refer clients to agencies that provide financial assistance, legal aid, housing, medical treatment and other services
- Provide public education and consultation regarding counselling services, issues and methods
- Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team of professionals working with a client group
- Advocate on client’s behalf in courts or at hearings
- Lobby for solutions to problems affecting client groups
- Conduct social research
- Apply for social program funding
- Administer tests
- Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
- Provide consultation services to government and other organizations
- Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and the patient’s outcomes
- Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs
- Supervise professional staff, program leaders and instructors and volunteer staff
- Monitor and evaluate
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
- 3-4 people
- 5-10 people
Experience and specialization
Target audience
- Adults
- Minority group
- People with personal or social adjustment difficulty
Social work specialization
- Community development
- Education and training
- Health
- Personal adjustment
- Socio-economic needs or conditions
Area of specialization
- Drug addiction
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification
- Mental health first aid Certificate
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- Mileage paid
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
Other benefits
- Other benefits