social worker
Posted on
June 28, 2024
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Employer details
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community
Job details
Please submit both your *Resume *and *Cover Letter* to apply for this role.
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services (AAMHCS) is a Community Health Centre that is committed to and works to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities. We do this by facilitating access to services and addressing systemic inequities. The Centre envisions a future in which diverse individuals, families and communities can achieve *health with dignity*.
Our dynamic and collaborative inter-professional team includes physicians, nurses, social workers, dieticians, psychiatric consultants, settlement workers, health promoters, community-based researchers and a cutting-edge Health interpretation program. We operate three busy centres, covering the City?s West, East End, and Downtown. All are easy to reach using public transport.
We are looking for a thoughtful, empathic, and organized person to be part of the Centre?s interdisciplinary health services team and work within a collaborative model of clinical and allied health practice, program planning, implementation and evaluation. The Social Worker provides assessment, case management and co-ordination, short and long-term counseling and where appropriate advocacy for clients and community members. The position works with all Centre clients, including women, children, youth, adults, seniors and 2SLGBTQI+, who are newcomers, immigrants, refugees and who face multiple and complex health and social issues.
The successful candidate will be working mainly from our 340 College St. Site but due to Access Alliances multi-site locations, may also work in all three locations.
*RESPONSIBILITIES:*
* Brief and short-term trauma-informed counselling for clients
* Support newcomers with mental health needs in any context; culturally appropriate approaches; trauma informed practice; integrating promising and emerging practices
* Client care coordination, including orientation, assessment, referrals to internal and external resources, case management and discharge planning
* Participate actively in the Centre's interdisciplinary team, supporting integrated approaches to client services based on social determinants of health
* Establish and maintain links with organizations and groups in the community
* Work with community groups and organization to identify service gaps and needs
* Network, liaise and jointly advocate with organizations and community groups addressing issues identified by clients and/or community
* Participating in primary health care program and service delivery within the broader community context in partnerships with other institutions as may be required from time to time
* Participating in all organizational systems and structures as required including but not limited to, quality assurance and performance evaluation
* Ability to travel and provide services throughout the City, at designated sites, and to work flexible hours, including evening and weekend shifts when required/scheduled
*SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:*
*Minimum Criteria*
* Master's degree in social work and registration or eligibility for registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
* Minimum 3 years full time work experience in clinical counselling
* Thorough familiarity and work experience with therapeutic methods and practices based upon a health promotion model
* Excellent case management, casework, counselling, crisis intervention, group facilitation skills
* Excellent networking and partnership development skills and interest in health promotion and research
* Superior interpersonal, communication (written and verbal), problem-solving, organizational, time management and self-care skills
* Strong computer literacy (word processing, internet, data entry in Windows applications, electronic medical record charting)
*Other Skills and Qualifications*
* Extensive knowledge of issues related to working with refugees, recent imm
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LocationToronto, ON
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Salary$63,337 to $76,394YEAR annually
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Terms of employment
Permanent employmentFull time
- Start date
Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies
1 vacancy
- Source
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