Employment Information
- Post ID: 410548165
- Open Date: November 15, 2024
- Close Date: January 22, 2025
- Organization: Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre
- Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
- Business Location:401 N Cumberland Street, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7A 4P7
- Total Views: 209
- Duration: 6 calendar days (5 business days)
- Last Updated: 7 days ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/thunder-bay/410548165/coordinator-of-social-work/
Job Details
- Experience: 3 years - 5 years
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $55,000 annually / 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
- Interview client individually, in families, or in groups, to assess their situation and problems to determine the types of services required
- Supervise other social workers, paid para-professional staff, student trainees and volunteers
- Perform administrative tasks
- Provide counsel and therapy to help clients resolve social and personal problems
- 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
- Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
- Provide consultation services to government and other organizations
- Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
- 3-4 people
- 5-10 people
- 11-15 people
- 16-20 people
- More than 20 people
- Working groups
- Committees
Experience and specialization
Target audience
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Children
- Elderly
- Family
- Aboriginal groups
Social work specialization
- Child welfare
- Community development
- Education and training
- Health
- Personal adjustment
- Socio-economic needs or conditions
- Social research
- Social policy development
Area of specialization
- Aboriginal or First Nations education
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver’s licence
- Own vehicle
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Large workload
- Large caseload
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
Benefits
Other benefits
- Other benefits