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To provide services such as child protection and assessment, casework, legal support and reporting requirements mandated under the FSIN Indian Child Welfare and Family Support Act and the Saskatchewan Child and Family Services Act.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Investigate allegations of neglect, physical or sexual abuse, and assess family functioning.
Determine risk factors to children's safety, implement intervention plans and provide support services to the family as needed.
Initiate, prepare for and attend family court proceedings and work through the process with the family.
Provide a range of services designed to provide protective, preventative and support services to children and their families.
Manage the needs of children in care, including placement in foster homes and/or alternate resources
Provide assessment, training, treatment planning and support to ensure that the childs emotional, physical, cultural, social, mental and educational needs are met.
Support foster families in providing the same services to children in their home and care.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Willing to travel
- Willing to travel regularly
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Cultural Awareness Training
Additional Skills
- Administrative and office activities
Type of Community or Social Service
- Child welfare
Specific Skills
- Obtain information and prepare reports or case histories
- Implement life skills workshops
- Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
- Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs
- Conduct follow-up assessments
- Develop, coordinate and implement the delivery of specific services within the community
- Provide suicide and crisis intervention
- Resolve conflict situations
- Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses
- Supervise children's visits with parents to ensure their safety
- Implement substance abuse treatment programs
- Implement behaviour management programs
- Conduct individual and group counselling sessions
- Provide personal services support to persons with special needs
- Establish registry of special needs support workers
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Develop service intervention logic models and outcome measures
- Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
- Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
Work Setting
- Social service agency
- Government agency
- Children's services facility
Work Location Information
- Rural community
- Remote location
- Various locations
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child abuse registry check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
Target Groups or Clients
- Adolescents
- Seniors
- Male
- Female
- Families
- Children
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Young offenders
- Persons with intellectual disabilities
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with learning disabilities