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The Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service is a professional community based organization that provides 24-hour crisis services for individuals and families in distress.
We are currently recruiting for casual Crisis Workers. Note: this is not a summer job but is year-round. Only those available year-round need apply.
This position provides direct responses on the telephone or in person to situations including child abuse and neglect, suicide intervention and mental health/addictions, domestic and family problems. Crisis Workers respond as a member of a team and also work independently. This is a shift-work position. MUST BE ABLE TO WORK DAYS, EVENINGS, NIGHTS and WEEKENDS.
The work is both challenging and rewarding. Excellent benefits package after 300 hours.
Qualifications:
- Must have a 4-year Bachelor of Social Work or Bachelor of Indian Social Work University Degree from an accredited Faculty of Social Work
- Must have a valid driver's license and computer skills.
- Must agree to a Criminal Record Check and Child Abuse Record Check.
Submit cover letter, resume and two references in a Word document to:
Rita Field
Executive Director
Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service Inc.
103-506-25th St East
Saskatoon, SK S7K 4A7
Fax: (306) 664-1974
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Non-violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) Certificate
- Cultural Awareness Training
Type of Community or Social Service
- Child welfare
- Socio-economic needs or conditions (housing, nutrition, unemployment, financial assistance)
- Services for the homeless
- Bereavement issues
Specific Skills
- Provide suicide and crisis intervention
- Resolve conflict situations
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
Security and Safety
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child abuse registry check
- Child welfare check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Confidential security clearance
Target Groups or Clients
- Adolescents
- Seniors
- Male
- Female
- Families
- Children
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Young offenders
- Street population
- Persons who are deaf/hard of hearing
- Persons who are blind/visually impaired
- Persons with intellectual disabilities
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
- Persons with learning disabilities
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