Social Worker

6 days ago

Scarborough, Canada Scarborough Centre for Health Communities Full time

Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (SCHC) is dedicated to providing accessible, equitable, and transformational health and social service choices for the well-being of Scarborough's diverse communities. We cultivate vital community services by promoting healthy lifestyles while delivering a comprehensive range of culturally competent health and social services programming. Our I2CARE values ensure that we, as a work community, treat all with, inclusivity, innovation, collaboration, accessibility respect and equity.

As an employer, we strive for excellence as a workplace and are committed to building a workforce that enhances our capacity to meet the needs of the diverse communities we serve.

In partnership with two grassroots organizations, The Forgiveness Project and Impact 'n Communities, this project offers a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with their extensive experience in supporting individuals affected by community violence.

We are currently looking to hire a:
**Social Worker (TO Wards Peace)**
**1 - Full Time Contract (Until March 2025)**

**Reporting To**:Community Wellness & Engagement Manager

**Department**:Community Support Services

TO Wards Peace Project (TWP) is a risk driven, community-centric interruption model that takes a public health approach to interrupting and intervening in community violence. This model leverages the lived experience of affected communities to develop and implement effective community engagement approaches, innovative communication tools, social media strategies and focused investment geared at violence prevention and interruption. The integrated approach will combine community based, social media and hospital-based violence interventions.

We are looking for an experienced Social Worker to provide one to one and group counselling for cohort members impacted or exposed to violence through a trauma informed and healing centered lens.

This position reports to the TO Wards Peace Project Lead.

**Responsibilities**:

- Devise and deliver goal-focused, trauma-informed assessments and treatment in partnership with youth, and at times their families and other supports working toward improving functioning in the community.
- Engage with clients to develop a trusting, supportive and sustained long-term relationship.
- Utilize a strengths-based approach, provide support, encouragement, information and feedback that enable youth and family members to realize their goals.
- Support and assist clients to outline options; provide education and counseling necessary for them to make informed choices.
- Develop and deliver programs and organize groups for identified priority populations.
- Ensure appropriate treatment is delivered by maintaining client records, assessment notes and correspondence within the safeguard of confidentiality.
- Provide case management support for youth, including working collaboratively with formal and informal support systems.
- Inform clients (and their family/network) about services available and assist them in choosing potential service providers/partners that are most likely to have culturally adaptive services.
- Link clients and family members to support and services that will promote their well
- being, enhance their ability to meet their mental health needs within their daily environment including school, home, employment, legal, and other community domains.
- Utilize strong case management and advocacy skills, with extensive knowledge of resources within the community.
- Possesses advanced clinical skills with youth and families with expertise in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), solution focused brief therapy, motivational interviewing.
- Prioritizes demands effectively to balance the complex needs of youth.
- Conducts risk assessments in the community.
- Provide culturally specific interventions.
- Provide one-one counseling including psychosocial assessments by understanding health risks based on the Social Determinants of Health framework (e.g. socio-economic position, housing, educational, financial and legal needs).
- Coordinate, implement and evaluate treatment plans and implement group support programs.
- Foster the development of self-help and mutual help groups in consultation with relevant team members and supervisor.
- Develop, implement and offer life skills / psycho-educational groups such as self-esteem, dealing with anxiety, anger management, stress management, grief, bereavement, and daily living skills.
- Initiate joint programming and communication with other team members and with other Centre wide programs to ensure comprehensive treatment for clients of the Centre.
- Carry out evaluation of group and program work and provide reports as required.
- Establish working relationships with other social service providers and referral sources.
- Contribute to chart documentation, participate in chart reviews, and case conferences.
- Encounter individual and group activities in database system.
- Document an

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