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Provides leadership, coaching, direction, and guidance in ensuring the responsibilities are being met in terms of the delivery of child and family services programs to a variety of stakeholders (i.e. Clients, foster parents, service providers, advocacy services, children in care, extended family members, parents).
Coordinate and participate in community planning initiatives through the use and delegation of community service providers, local first nation office and services, Board, and other organizations and programs.
Collaborates effectively with FLFN ICFS INC., Fishing Lake First Nation, FSIN, ISC, MSS, educational organizations, professional associations, and other government policy bodies.
BSW/BISW and RSW, through a recognized accredited university or experience equivalent to 5 years in a related field.
Sound knowledge of clinical theories in relation to child abuse/neglect, social, physical and the impact on children's social, emotional, and mental development.
Knowledge of Fishing Lake First Nations culture, values and traditions in parenting styles, values, and communication.
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
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Membership with the Canadian Association of Social Workers
- Membership in a provincial association of social workers
Additional Skills
- Use computer applications
- Supervise other social workers, paid para-professional staff, student trainees and volunteers
- Perform administrative tasks
Specific Skills
- Administer tests
- Act as an advocate for client groups in the community
- Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team working with a client group
- Refer clients to agencies that provide financial assistance, legal aid, housing, medical treatment and other services
- Provide mediation services and psychosocial assessments
- Provide public education and consultation regarding counselling services, issues and methods
- Provide counsel and therapy to help clients resolve social and personal problems
- Provide consultation services to government and other organizations
- Plan programs of assistance for clients
- Lobby for solutions to problems affecting client groups
- Interview clients to assess their situation and determine the types of services required and eligibility
- Investigate cases of child abuse or neglect and take authorized protective action when necessary
- Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and social programs
- Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
- Apply for social program funding
- Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs
Work Setting
- Aboriginal band council
- Social and family service agency
- Community service organization
Client Population
- Adolescents
- Adult
- Social assistance recipient
- Personal or social adjustment difficulty
- Minority group
- Male
- Female
- Elderly
- Developmentally delayed
- Child
Area of Social Work Specialization
- Social policy development
- Socio-economic needs or conditions
- Personal adjustment
- Health
- Education and training
- Community development
- Child welfare
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