Project Reset Caseworker

**Title**: Project ReSet Caseworker**

**Location(s)**:Mobile community work; with Carling office location

**Hours**: 35 hours per week **_contract until June 30_**_th_**_, 2024 with a strong possibility of renewal_**

**Salary**: $ 45,623.00- $ 51,845.00 **per annum based on experience.

**Employer**:John Howard Society of Ottawa

**H**OW **T**O **A**PPLY**:Please submit your cover letter and resume through

**Closing Date**: February 1, 2024

**About the environment**:Employees at JHS Ottawa say the organizational culture is supportive, innovative, and focused on creating a caring environment for both clients and staff. At JHS Ottawa, you will find an employer that celebrates the uniqueness of each of its staff members and is committed to promoting an engaging working culture where all employees are encouraged to live their strengths and realize their potential.

**About who we support**:Our employees are supporting a diverse client group including youth and adults, of all genders, from a wide cross-section of social, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds who are representative of our broader community. We are accountable to the people we serve by providing the highest quality of service with integrity through the delivery of responsive, innovative, and evidence-informed approaches.

**About the role**:
The Project ReSet program works with individuals who are at risk of promoting, supporting, or committing violence or high-risk behaviour related to or associated with an ideology or targeting of identifiable groups or institutions. The caseworkers provide responsive, individualized case management and wraparound support and services in the community or institutions. Services are client-centered, and so, the needs, strengths, and goals of the client guide the intervention plan. The goal is to enhance protective factors, reduce risk and vulnerability factors, and improve community connection. Training for professionals and the greater community will be part of the role. Travel throughout Eastern Ontario is required.

**If you’re right for this role, you’ll be natural at**:

- Understanding and working with clients who struggle with multiple barriers, both at a systemic and individual level (mental health, criminality, substance use, history of trauma)
- Designing and attending outreach programs, engaging with clients, and designing strategic interventions with individuals involved in or at risk of targeted violence/crime and their families and communities.
- Initiative, perseverance, curiosity, flexibility, and organizational skills to ensure tasks are promptly and accurately completed, under tight timelines with the ability to Communicate, including providing and receiving feedback.
- Strong independent work skills.
- Speaking in public, engaging with the community and other professionals (as required)

**You'll stand out if you have...**
- Understanding of trauma and its implications for those individuals intended by this project.
- Experience in conducting standardized assessments which supports clients to establish and achieve their goals.
- Knowledge of and training in the VERA-2R.
- Experience and commitment to working with marginalized populations in a dignified and respectful manner.
- Providing intensive case management in the community, at institutions, or the office, including both direct counselling/support and bridging to other services.
- Using structured interventions that target areas known to put individuals at risk for ongoing criminal behaviour or extremism.
- Meeting deadlines, managing multimodal interventions and working efficiently under pressure.
- Working with individuals in the community during crisis and other high-risk engagement situations.
- Using data collected through numerous sources (assessment, collaterals, and/or other documents) to complete regular reports, trackers, and/or other required documentation

**You have a unique history. Does it include the education and experience listed below?**
- A post-secondary degree or diploma in the field of social sciences or relevant lived experience.
- Minimum two years_ _experience providing direct intervention to at-risk/justice-involved transition-aged youth and/or adults and their families.
- Experience and ability to work with various aspects of the youth and adult justice systems, including diversion, detention, custody, probation, and parole, as well as police services.
- Proven effective relationship-building with community partners and referral sources.

**SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WILL**
- Have an updated clear Criminal Record Check working with a vulnerable population.
- Obtain clearance with the Correctional Service of Canada for federal institution meetings, and with provincial institutions (Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre), Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and/or the Ottawa Police Service.
- Have an interest in working within a structured clinical model, or established program model.
- Be supported by the JHS Cli