Social Worker - part-time

at  StAmant

ABOUT US

St.Amant supports over 5,000 people in Manitoba with developmental disabilities, autism and acquired brain injury. We are a not-for-profit organization that offers a wide range of supports for adults, children and their families. Our over 2,000 staff follow a person centred approach and adapt to the needs of each person and each family. St.Amant is guided by its core values of Collaboration, Hospitality, Excellence and Respect.

POSITION SUMMARY AND SCOPE OF SERVICE:

St.Amant’s core values reflect a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. St.Amant maintains ongoing commitment to recruiting a diverse and talented workforce, which is paramount to supporting the vibrant community we serve.
The Service Facilitator has operational responsibility for the Community Stabilization Service (CSS) and plays a critical role in ensuring that the CSS succeeds as a short-term, interdisciplinary consultative service to people with intellectual disabilities whose living arrangements are at risk of breakdown due to complex challenging behaviours or other reasons.
Using a strengths-based, person- and family-centered approach, the Social Worker promotes a positive environment for the individual and works collaboratively to support formal and informal networks, and enhance knowledge, competencies and skills. The Social Worker takes an active role in promoting services and developing creative strategies to work with individuals, families, external service providers and systems, as required.
The Social Worker is responsible for scheduling and chairing interdisciplinary meetings, placing referrals for additional clinical services as required, and otherwise ensuring that services are delivered in a timely and time limited fashion. The Social Worker is responsible for coordinating education and training delivered by CSS team members, and works collaboratively with Community Support Workers to achieve positive outcomes that contribute to the person’s dignity, quality of life and self-determination.
St.Amant, as part of an initiative entitled “Meaningful Connections”, seeks to expand the culture of support (“excellent caretaking”) to include an intentional focus on equipping a person with the opportunities and skills to develop relationships. The goal of this initiative is to have people we support exploring and establishing relationships with people in the community.

EDUCATIONAL:

• Must possess a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Degree from an accredited university

Duties include:

• Documents and maintains client files and provides reports in a format consistent with program protocol and timelines
• Empowers families to develop formal and informal supports to facilitate the most effective and efficient utilization of resources and to enhance coping skills; assists and enables families to develop informal support networks, circle of friends, or peer/parent networks
• Provides education or information, verbal and/or written, with respect to services and resources
• Provides counseling or refer to appropriate counseling resources if required
• Facilitates groups in response to identified need
• Coordinates/facilitates the resolution process related to family concerns or dissatisfaction and provides mediation and conciliation services
• Schedules and conducts regular reviews with the family and case managers
• Consults effectively with other supports and services to ensure coordination of planning
• Ensures clinical outcomes are monitored, documented and shared appropriately and effectivel