Family Support Worker

4 days ago

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Government of Nova Scotia Full time

Job Title: Family Support Worker

Department: Community Services

Location: YARMOUTH

Type of Employment: Temporary

Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG

About the Opportunity

The Department of Community Services is seeking a Family Support Worker to provide support to children, youth, and families connected to the Child and Family Wellbeing program. As a Family Support Worker, you will play an active role in working with children, youth, and families to build resilience and inspire change.

Primary Accountabilities

  • Develop strategies and provide knowledge, tools, and guidance to families and youth to support independent living and meeting their physical, emotional, social, and learning needs.
  • Build positive relationships with diverse clients (families, children & youth), ensuring respect, empathy, and an understanding of the impact of their trauma.
  • Advocate for clients and help them connect to community supports and resources.
  • Assist with income and social supports, affordable housing, and life skills.
  • Make independent visits to clients in their homes/communities and attend court sessions.
  • Comprehensive and timely evaluation of ongoing services to clients with an intent to find solutions and improve services.

Qualifications and Experience

  • You have an approved Child & Youth Care Worker diploma from a provincially approved post-secondary institution. An undergraduate degree in Social Sciences is considered an asset.
  • You are compassionate, empathetic, and resilient with a focus on inclusivity and understanding the needs of diverse clients.
  • You must demonstrate knowledge of child development, family dynamics, and community resources, as well as an understanding of physical, psychological, and emotional needs of children and youth in a family setting as well as in care.
  • You must demonstrate knowledge of financial management and healthy child development & life skills.
  • You must demonstrate understanding and experience with working towards the objectives of the established case plans.
  • You must be able to work independently and in a team environment, to strengthen and improve the support provided to children and families.
  • You must be able to work collaboratively and build relationships & networks with diverse individuals, groups, and communities.
  • You must have effective interactive communication skills (written and verbal) to engage collaborations and navigate diverse client environments with tact and empathy.
  • You must be able to adapt to the changing/unpredictable client circumstances, exercise timely judgement, and make decisions to provide a culturally responsive service to clients.
  • You must have knowledge of various software packages, such as Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams).

Assets

  • Previous experience in child welfare or other social services.
  • Experience with the department case management systems (ICM/CCM).

What We Offer

  • Career Possibilities: you will have access to multiple career paths, career guidance, and ongoing training for every stage of your career.
  • Rewarding and versatile work; daily, you will get to see the impact you have in and around your community.
  • Engaging workplace; you are respected, supported, and valued. We have forward-thinking policies and strategies and incorporate your feedback to enhance our services.

Benefits

The Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits, including a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs.

Working Conditions

Most of your work involves independently meeting with clients conducting their sessions predominately in isolation from other staff in various locations (i.e. offices, homes, community agencies/organizations) in both rural and urban settings; this can be outside regular working hours. This necessitates considerable driving time, sometimes with unpredictable and adverse travel/weather conditions.

Additional Information

This is a temporary opportunity with an anticipated end date of March 31, 2025. The appointment status ('term', 'temporary' or 'casual') is dependent on the start date of the successful candidate.

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