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Job Title: Family Violence Worker
Job Description:
- To provide emotional support and empathic listening to drop-in clients/regular clients:
- To develop and elevate community awareness on the negative effects of family and domestic violence;
- To address the needs of the Saskatoon Domestic Violence Court as it relates to the treatment of offenders and victims;
- To provide a safe environment in which confidentiality is respected.
- To provide support in a non-threatening manner;
- To provide a family and holistic approach to healing;
- To provide intervention and alternative ways to deal with abuse, anger and unhealthy relationships.
- To recruit an female to assist in facilitation of a women's healing group
- To provide education and information on child abuse as it relates to Domestic Violence and the harm that it inflicts on children;
- To create a greater awareness of the Family Violence Program within the City of Saskatoon;
- Group facilitation skills
- Extensive knowledge about the dynamics of intimate partner violence and interventions that can decrease or escalate risk to women;
- Knowledge of counseling theories and how they apply to Intimate Personal Violence work
-Knowledge of traditional teachings of healing
- Engage in the fundraising hosted by SIMFC
-Full Time (35 hours per week)
-Life experience an asset
-Female candidate preferred
Essential Skills
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
Type of Community or Social Service
- Corrections
Specific Skills
- Resolve conflict situations
- Conduct individual and group counselling sessions
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
Target Groups or Clients
- Female
- Aboriginal groups